Because they have similar beliefs, live the same general area, and support the same causes, Black Lives Matter should be considered a community; however, Black Lives Matter is supporting their common cause in ways that can be viewed as unproductive and seemingly unnecessary in America.
Black Lives Matter is an organization that was created to build connections between black people and their allies (“Black Lives Matter”). It started in 2012 when Trayvon Martin, a black 17 year old boy, was killed by a white man named George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was acquitted for his crime. The Trayvon Martin Case was what inspired three women, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors, to create the …show more content…
One example of controversy is the All Lives Matter versus Black Lives Matter movement which claims that “black lives do matter, as do white, Asian, and Hispanic lives” (Emord) and that we can all stand together for a common cause. Yet, Black Lives Matter continues to stick with what it already stands for, protesting against white on black crimes. Then, on the topic of black on black versus white on black shootings, Black Lives Matter focuses only on white on black shootings, claiming on their website that “the movement doesn’t care about black-on-black crime” (11 Major Misconceptions About Black Lives Matter, par.2). The facts show that in 2013, there was 2,491 homicides with black or African American victims; 189 of those homicides involved a white offender while 2,245 involved a black or African American as the offender (Expanded Homicide Data Table 6). So, if Black Lives Matter is organizing a movement against the murder of black citizens, why focus on only a fraction of the problem? If black people are taking black lives more frequently than white people, shouldn’t Black Lives Matter focus on simply all lives matter as murders with victims and offenders within their race is a larger portion of the problem than the interracial crimes? Just to clarify, I will not say that interracial crimes are less of a problem, just a smaller part of the problem. Any crime against another human is a
Black Lives Matter is an organization that was created to build connections between black people and their allies (“Black Lives Matter”). It started in 2012 when Trayvon Martin, a black 17 year old boy, was killed by a white man named George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was acquitted for his crime. The Trayvon Martin Case was what inspired three women, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors, to create the …show more content…
One example of controversy is the All Lives Matter versus Black Lives Matter movement which claims that “black lives do matter, as do white, Asian, and Hispanic lives” (Emord) and that we can all stand together for a common cause. Yet, Black Lives Matter continues to stick with what it already stands for, protesting against white on black crimes. Then, on the topic of black on black versus white on black shootings, Black Lives Matter focuses only on white on black shootings, claiming on their website that “the movement doesn’t care about black-on-black crime” (11 Major Misconceptions About Black Lives Matter, par.2). The facts show that in 2013, there was 2,491 homicides with black or African American victims; 189 of those homicides involved a white offender while 2,245 involved a black or African American as the offender (Expanded Homicide Data Table 6). So, if Black Lives Matter is organizing a movement against the murder of black citizens, why focus on only a fraction of the problem? If black people are taking black lives more frequently than white people, shouldn’t Black Lives Matter focus on simply all lives matter as murders with victims and offenders within their race is a larger portion of the problem than the interracial crimes? Just to clarify, I will not say that interracial crimes are less of a problem, just a smaller part of the problem. Any crime against another human is a