IV. Continuing the Fight for Civil Rights After the Civil Right Movement, there was huge backlash from opposers of policies and norms that were set it. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan took advantage of his inherent hate by introducing legislation the war on crime/drugs in order to appease the opposing side. Over the following decades, while the Civil Rights Act protected communities of color from invidious discrimination, the fight for civil rights was not over. In her academic article “Unfinished Project of Civil Rights in the Era of Mass Incarceration and the Movement for Black Lives”, Nicole D. Porter discusses the collective impact of justice involvement on communities of color and how recent social movements are challenging the issue
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These institutions reinforce disparities in marginalized communities and open doors for social movements which seeks to find solutions to these problems. George Diepenbrock highlights exactly how these issues are related and are driving movements in his article “Systemic Race, Class Inequality Are Driving Protests, Social Movement Scholar Says”. Diepenbrock mentions that Tony Bolden, an associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Kansas, has found that these movements “were responses to instances of more systematic inequality surrounding race and class–such as mass incarceration and the war on drugs–issues that were decades in the making.” The author stresses that these movements are not a result of events that happened overnight, but rather due to a growing issue that has magnified certain problems within marginalized communities. Bolden also highlights that Black Lives Matter’s “inclusivity has inspired many people from various cultural backgrounds and sexual orientations” which reveals why so many have stood in solidarity with the movement and has gained so much ground over recent years. The emphasis Diepenbrock makes is that movements like Black Lives Matter was not something that happened sporadically. It is a response to issues that have …show more content…
What bridges these people from different backgrounds is the understanding in what instances throughout history when black lives have not mattered. Eric Larson makes this clear in his article “Black Lives Matter and Bridge Building: Labor Education for a New Jim Crow Era.” Throughout his article, Larson focuses on the goals of BLM and how it “has highlighted how the same institutions that claim to represent, protect, and serve society—courthouses and schools in addition to police—operate on racial indifference and assumptions that black lives do not matter.” The articles highlights on how Black Lives Matter gained so much ground within the youth and what events led up to its rise. The article also makes claims that the movement is about more than police brutality: “it is about the many ways black lives do not matter to society’s principal institutions, whether the police, the school system, the courthouse, or workplaces.” Larson successfully supports his claim by providing evidence that directly connects Black Lives Matter to issues black people in the criminal justice system and society overall. Its purpose is not to say that other live do not matter; it is about including black people in the discussion and emphasizing that black lives matter too. There are underlying issues that have reinforced institutionalized racism and the youth of the movement
These institutions reinforce disparities in marginalized communities and open doors for social movements which seeks to find solutions to these problems. George Diepenbrock highlights exactly how these issues are related and are driving movements in his article “Systemic Race, Class Inequality Are Driving Protests, Social Movement Scholar Says”. Diepenbrock mentions that Tony Bolden, an associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Kansas, has found that these movements “were responses to instances of more systematic inequality surrounding race and class–such as mass incarceration and the war on drugs–issues that were decades in the making.” The author stresses that these movements are not a result of events that happened overnight, but rather due to a growing issue that has magnified certain problems within marginalized communities. Bolden also highlights that Black Lives Matter’s “inclusivity has inspired many people from various cultural backgrounds and sexual orientations” which reveals why so many have stood in solidarity with the movement and has gained so much ground over recent years. The emphasis Diepenbrock makes is that movements like Black Lives Matter was not something that happened sporadically. It is a response to issues that have …show more content…
What bridges these people from different backgrounds is the understanding in what instances throughout history when black lives have not mattered. Eric Larson makes this clear in his article “Black Lives Matter and Bridge Building: Labor Education for a New Jim Crow Era.” Throughout his article, Larson focuses on the goals of BLM and how it “has highlighted how the same institutions that claim to represent, protect, and serve society—courthouses and schools in addition to police—operate on racial indifference and assumptions that black lives do not matter.” The articles highlights on how Black Lives Matter gained so much ground within the youth and what events led up to its rise. The article also makes claims that the movement is about more than police brutality: “it is about the many ways black lives do not matter to society’s principal institutions, whether the police, the school system, the courthouse, or workplaces.” Larson successfully supports his claim by providing evidence that directly connects Black Lives Matter to issues black people in the criminal justice system and society overall. Its purpose is not to say that other live do not matter; it is about including black people in the discussion and emphasizing that black lives matter too. There are underlying issues that have reinforced institutionalized racism and the youth of the movement