With recent fatalities that have claimed the lives of young African-Americans at the hands of white officers, have generated much press and created outrage throughout the world. In the wake of these heinous crimes, white and black people alike are taking to the streets with expressing their frustration and anger through protest that there should be stiffer penalties and programs in place for over-policing in the black community. These horrendous, heinous, cowardly acts have taken us a step backwards in time to segregation and the Jim Crow Laws, of the 60’s Civil Rights Movement, which have claimed many lives of African-Americans. Is it true, as Black Lives Matters asserts, and as its very name suggests, that American society as a whole deems
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The final words of Garner and Mubenga which link themselves of them being choked and restrained to their anticipated deaths. (“I can’t breathe”-I’m already dead, a corpse; “They’re killing me,” I am in the process of dying, becoming a corpse)-and also the resistant stance against these sanctioned isolated murders of black men by representative of the state (Rabinowitz, 20161). These are the heinous crimes committed against a people and a community to which they refuse to be silenced on the issues at hand as a cry for fairness and justice. The Black Lives Matter website and the Twitter hash tag #Black Lives Matter had been launched in by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tomeki-all in their thirties and all veteran activist. Cullors a performance artist based in Los Angeles, founded Dignity and Power Now, which she says has “achieved victories for the abolitionist movement.” The word abolitionist” here refers to a vision of doing away entirely with the law-enforcement and criminal justice system. Garza is an officer of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, having previously run a San Francisco group called People Organized to win Employment Rights (Power). She, too, speaks of abolishing the present economic system. Opal Tomeki, who describe herself as a “believer and practitioner of liberation theology, “is the New York-based executive director of Black Alliance for Immigration. They were inspired to create Black Lives Matter out of anguish over the acquittal of George
The final words of Garner and Mubenga which link themselves of them being choked and restrained to their anticipated deaths. (“I can’t breathe”-I’m already dead, a corpse; “They’re killing me,” I am in the process of dying, becoming a corpse)-and also the resistant stance against these sanctioned isolated murders of black men by representative of the state (Rabinowitz, 20161). These are the heinous crimes committed against a people and a community to which they refuse to be silenced on the issues at hand as a cry for fairness and justice. The Black Lives Matter website and the Twitter hash tag #Black Lives Matter had been launched in by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tomeki-all in their thirties and all veteran activist. Cullors a performance artist based in Los Angeles, founded Dignity and Power Now, which she says has “achieved victories for the abolitionist movement.” The word abolitionist” here refers to a vision of doing away entirely with the law-enforcement and criminal justice system. Garza is an officer of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, having previously run a San Francisco group called People Organized to win Employment Rights (Power). She, too, speaks of abolishing the present economic system. Opal Tomeki, who describe herself as a “believer and practitioner of liberation theology, “is the New York-based executive director of Black Alliance for Immigration. They were inspired to create Black Lives Matter out of anguish over the acquittal of George