Women's March And The Black Lives Matter Analysis

In 1891 philosopher Oscar Wilde observed that humanity’s greatest virtue is disobedience. Throughout history, we have used disobedience to change what we know as the way of life such as social norms. Disobedience promotes the need for social progress. Marches, stand-ins, and other protests are peaceful and common ways of disobeying society’s set morals. Today we have the Women's March and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The Women’s March, which took place April 21, 2017, was an international example of the people’s unity against misogyny in modern society. Women marched because they believed that enough time has passed without women gaining the same human rights as white men in the modern world. Meanwhile, the BLM movement battles against police brutality among the targeted people of color. The deaths that sparked this movement was caused by the stigma surrounding the belief that “all black people are violent, drug addicted criminals.” The BLM movement believes that the brutality exerted by the police officers involved in the deaths of
The American Revolution, for example, began when the people of the American-British colonies grew intolerant of the demands given by King George III and their lack of freedom to decide. To combat the oppressive rule of King George III, the people of the Americas revolted against the iron fist of the king and declared themselves an independent nation separate from Great Britain. As an independent nation, the founding fathers designed a democratic system built on the belief that the average person should have a say in their government unlike the monarchy they detached themselves from. Today, the democratic system created by the Americans still stands tall today. Democracy is now the primary government system in 123 countries out of 192 countries today, becoming the primary government of most of the world’s major powers instead of