A renowned poet and social critic, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington originally published “The Power of Black Lives Matter” in The Crisis in 2015. In Darryl Lorenzo Wellington’s article “The Power of Black Lives Matter,” he argues that the Black Lives Matter movement has helped bring to the forefront the uncomfortable truth about race and class in the United States of America. He makes it clear that racism is still present in today’s society and that Black Lives Matter will help make this problem more noticeable. He does so through rhetorical questions and repetition.
Black Lives Matter is an organization founded in 2013 that soon became a social media trend and a hashtag resonated on social media. #BlackLivesMatter developed throughout 2013 and 2014, it was utilized as a platform and organizing tool. Other groups, organizations, and individuals used it to amplify anti-Black racism across the country, in all the ways it showed up., Tanisha Anderson, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Mya Hall, and Sandra Bland these names are inherently important, they were considered victims of police brutality. The space that #Black Lives Matter held and continues to hold …show more content…
The occupiers were indeed the majority of the economic process in the states, it kept many strong and connected through the fact of being in the same class in a sense. Though there was a crack in the 99%, something that kept them from their true unity , race. he does not expect an answer he does so to make raise the issue at hand. Wellington asked “How can America deny that Black lives mattered?” (Wellington 8137). The primary goal of this organization is to eradicate racism in law enforcement and school to prison pipeline afflicting Black communities; and that can be done in different ways, by asking that question he can make one reevaluate his or her actions and be accountable for what he or she
Black Lives Matter is an organization founded in 2013 that soon became a social media trend and a hashtag resonated on social media. #BlackLivesMatter developed throughout 2013 and 2014, it was utilized as a platform and organizing tool. Other groups, organizations, and individuals used it to amplify anti-Black racism across the country, in all the ways it showed up., Tanisha Anderson, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Mya Hall, and Sandra Bland these names are inherently important, they were considered victims of police brutality. The space that #Black Lives Matter held and continues to hold …show more content…
The occupiers were indeed the majority of the economic process in the states, it kept many strong and connected through the fact of being in the same class in a sense. Though there was a crack in the 99%, something that kept them from their true unity , race. he does not expect an answer he does so to make raise the issue at hand. Wellington asked “How can America deny that Black lives mattered?” (Wellington 8137). The primary goal of this organization is to eradicate racism in law enforcement and school to prison pipeline afflicting Black communities; and that can be done in different ways, by asking that question he can make one reevaluate his or her actions and be accountable for what he or she