Black Lives Matter was a international activist movement that helped fight for equality towards the African Americans. This movement began as a small but fierce rebellion in a St. Louis suburb exploded into wildfire that has engulfed the whole country. It has done something all too rare in our time: it’s escaped the control of the ruling establishment, which police repression nor Democrats have been able to stop the movement because of how powerful it was to the world. Most recently in 2013 Black Lives Matter campaign gained momentum online in the wake of a jury finding George Zimmerman not guilty of the second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African American high school student whom Zimmerman shot and killed with a 9mm pistol.
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Some police and courts today are color-blind. Outright brutality is under greater scrutiny than before the 1960s, and is probably less common. In many cities, and likely because of the Black Lives Matter movement, not only are body cameras issued but there are cameras in police cars and video cameras in interrogation. But the growth of police forces since the early 1990s, as felonies declined, enabled police commanders to deploy more cops in neighborhoods of color in search of petty offenses to beef up their reputations. One complication is that Black Lives Matter, the entity or entities, is not identical to black lives matter, the sentiment. Not everything done in the name of Black Lives Matter serves the larger goal of increasing the share and influence of Americans, of all races, who believe that black lives do matter. Black Lives Matter organizations have every right to define their own commitments, but everyone who cares about black lives has the right to an opinion as to how the goal can be realized.
Integration or Separatism? Martin Luther King with Stokely Carmichael (upper right) marching in Mississippi, June 1966
Blacks lives do matter. Many blacks get killed unfairly without right like for example a 15 year old kid by name of Jordan Edwards was killed on April 29, 2017 leaving a party in Balch Springs, Texas. Officers responded to a house party after reports of underage drinking. Police spotted a car …show more content…
on April 28, 1963 in Washington in look for jobs and freedom to the blacks. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all. He was famous for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation laws (laws that prevented blacks from entering certain places, such as restaurants, hotels, and public schools). He also did all he could to make people realize that "all men are created equal." Because of his great work, in 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize -- the youngest person ever to receive this high honor. King was also a Baptist minister. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was just 39 years old. His birthday is now observed as a national holiday on the third Monday in January. Anyone whose went to elementary school has heard of him because of the huge impact he did to this world. He took a big role in stopping all segregation and racism. Struggling and struggled but at last conquered. To me he is one of my idols, taking that big step and wanting his word to be heard and not being scared of anyone who thought he was wrong. Giving speeches, marching, and even meeting up with important people to have his word heard. Even with the KKK being his opponent he did not give up nor stop trying, he wanted to see a change. God truly
Some police and courts today are color-blind. Outright brutality is under greater scrutiny than before the 1960s, and is probably less common. In many cities, and likely because of the Black Lives Matter movement, not only are body cameras issued but there are cameras in police cars and video cameras in interrogation. But the growth of police forces since the early 1990s, as felonies declined, enabled police commanders to deploy more cops in neighborhoods of color in search of petty offenses to beef up their reputations. One complication is that Black Lives Matter, the entity or entities, is not identical to black lives matter, the sentiment. Not everything done in the name of Black Lives Matter serves the larger goal of increasing the share and influence of Americans, of all races, who believe that black lives do matter. Black Lives Matter organizations have every right to define their own commitments, but everyone who cares about black lives has the right to an opinion as to how the goal can be realized.
Integration or Separatism? Martin Luther King with Stokely Carmichael (upper right) marching in Mississippi, June 1966
Blacks lives do matter. Many blacks get killed unfairly without right like for example a 15 year old kid by name of Jordan Edwards was killed on April 29, 2017 leaving a party in Balch Springs, Texas. Officers responded to a house party after reports of underage drinking. Police spotted a car …show more content…
on April 28, 1963 in Washington in look for jobs and freedom to the blacks. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all. He was famous for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation laws (laws that prevented blacks from entering certain places, such as restaurants, hotels, and public schools). He also did all he could to make people realize that "all men are created equal." Because of his great work, in 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize -- the youngest person ever to receive this high honor. King was also a Baptist minister. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was just 39 years old. His birthday is now observed as a national holiday on the third Monday in January. Anyone whose went to elementary school has heard of him because of the huge impact he did to this world. He took a big role in stopping all segregation and racism. Struggling and struggled but at last conquered. To me he is one of my idols, taking that big step and wanting his word to be heard and not being scared of anyone who thought he was wrong. Giving speeches, marching, and even meeting up with important people to have his word heard. Even with the KKK being his opponent he did not give up nor stop trying, he wanted to see a change. God truly