Does Black Lives Matter

All lives matter or black lives matter? The answer is simple: Black lives matter. In a world where black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise.This movement is an urgent call to action against the inequality and expectations of normality defined by white supremacy. The black lives matter movement is necessary to combat and raise awareness of the racism targeted toward black people. Through the Black lives matter movement people come and stand together regardless of their racial identity, religion,gender, or ethnicity to end police brutality, mass incarcerations of black people and demilitarization of police departments, ultimately, to end all forms of discrimination and to have black lives be given the full recognition …show more content…
As the Civil Rights Movement of the past became a legal battle fought by lawyers in courtrooms the movement began to distance itself from the people it initially was founded to help. The lawyers became political personalities and sought to distance themselves from the stigma of working with those that were labeled criminals -2. The Civil Rights Movement was focused on helping those that would elicit sympathy from the society and this made criminals unrelatable and because of being a criminal they would not gain sympathy from the majority of people in America. The Black Lives Matter Movement changes all of that. The statement, “Black Lives Matter”, isn’t just saying the implied “black lives matter too”, it is saying that all black lives matter. It is an inclusive movement that seeks to bring together varieties of those who were left out of the Civil Rights Movement of the past. The type of movement that Black Lives Matter has started to develop into is necessary to dismantle the colorblind racism present in American