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Black Lives Matter, also known as BLM, is an international activist movement, originating in the African American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. There have been a lot of protests, riots, and fights due to police officers not being convicted…
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Our criminal justice system in America has offered the suggestion that being black is a crime. Each case that involved a police officer killing an unarmed black person has left society with an empty void every time the defender was determined not guilty. This social…
The Social Movement Group, Black Lives Matter (BLM), emerged from a hashtag on Twitter in 2013 when George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, United States. The movement rekindled into what it is today after the killing of African-American…
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Since May of 2020 multiple protests have stirred up due to the killing of George Floyd. The latest victim is Jacob Blake; ‘’he was shot seven times in the back by a police officer’’. Even though Blake was able to survive the shooting, he himself…
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Good morning, I am very grateful for this opportunity to represent my community for this movement. My name is Abigail and I came to make a statement on the Black Lives Matter movement and on our equality work. As the leader of this movement, I…
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In Florida of July 2013, a man by the name of George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin; which began the activist movement, Black Lives Matter, later beginning the hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter). Following Martin’s death, Black Lives Matter…
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Race is one of the correlates of crime receiving attention in academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern. Roughly eight-in-ten blacks with at least some college experience (81%) say they’ve experienced racial discrimination, at least from time to time, including 17% who say…
Protest movements have sprung difficult conversations in order to create social change, and the impact social media has made on these topics has allowed conversations to be talked about in new ways. Since the shooting and killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin by police officer…
The Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM) that has spread over recent years is destroying police-black citizen relations. They are constantly spreading hateful propaganda and creating danger for the number-one protector of black lives, police officers. BLM is damaging race relations in addition to putting police…
Black lives matter is a social media movement that went of the Ferguson, Gardner cases etc. Also very rapidly it was to show as a opposition to the police and cops. Somehow when saying black lives matter it was like saying all life matter don’t…
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The kind of society that we live in every other person, diplomat and country preaches about human rights, equality, unity and social justice among people and states but still we witness and go through numerous headlines and articles almost every day which talks about racism,…
The Black Lives Matters (BLM) carries on with issues development is a (without having one focal region of order) political and social development battling for peaceful (not keeping laws that appear to be destructive or out of line) in challenge occasions of police viciousness and…
‘You’re never too old, and if you want to, as my mother said, you can do anything you want to, but you have to work at it’, true words were spoken by Annie Jean Easley, an American computer scientist. Born on April 23, 1933, in…
From very early years people biologically tried to divide population of the earth by the skin or eye color, that the point when people start to think about terms like segregation and apartheid. Both of the terms are tend to separate society apart and make…
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Everything you do is being judged. Everywhere you go people observe and watch your every movement, waiting for you to pull out a gun or a bomb any second now. People say that it is not about your appearance, that it is not about your…
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Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a social and political movement that aims to highlight inequality, discrimination, and racism against black people all around the world. Protests against racially-motivated violence and police brutality are the main tool for achieving that goal.
The public opinion regarding the movement was negative at the moment, but it shifted over time. In 2020, Pew Research Center published the results of a poll stating that 67% of adult Americans supported the BLM movement in one way or another.
The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter became popular when African-American teen Trayvon Martin was shot dead by George Zimmerman. The movement gained traction with the protests in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, which were sparked by Michael Brown’s death. In 2020, the BLM movement sparked global protests after George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer.
The direct action tactics that BLM engages in are effective in addressing the issue. Racism against black people has been going on for too long, and this approach seems to be the only way to attract enough attention. BLM events have been known for disproportionate policing, which proves the point why these protests are needed.
Many of the protests are disruptive and disrespectful. The negative rhetoric towards American society doesn’t lead to building solidarity.
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