For centuries, America has always directly or indirectly oppressed and/or discriminated one or more groups of people. It started out with the Natives and then the Africans, even Italians and the Irish were discriminated against. Noted that all this discrimination had occurred at time when many, many people lacked their inalienable rights. Now America is one the most powerful countries in the entire world and we do have a system that grants every human being in America their inalienable rights. The Italians and the Irish are no longer discriminated against so why are only the people of color still being discriminated against? The article, “Building a Culture of Solidarity: Racial Discourse, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous Social Justice”
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The specific incident that caused the inception of this movement was the murder of an innocent, unarmed seventeen year old, Trayvon Martin. This was just the start of many acts of hatred that followed, however with that “many new organizations, organizers, and coalitions have sprung up with rapidity to challenge [this] systematic racism” along with some “experienced organizations [who have] taken leadership in cultivating the recent burst in political energy…[to discuss] race, police violence, and institutionalized discrimination [as they move] into mainstream contexts”(pg 3). Garza, one of the founders of the BLM movement, feels as though “as BLM has increasingly gained attention in the media, more and more organizations have started to borrow BLM phrasing in order to generate for their own causes,” such as “#NativeLivesMatter, #LatinoLivesMatter, and #AsianLivesMatter”(pg 3-4). Some even went as far as changing “the title of an event from ‘Black Lives Matter’ to ‘Our Lives Matter’…to be more inclusive of all people of color,” ultimately defeating the whole purpose of this entire movement. Ramos, the author, feels as though non-black people of color, such as asians or latinos, appropriate the #BlackLivesMatter for their own purposes and
The specific incident that caused the inception of this movement was the murder of an innocent, unarmed seventeen year old, Trayvon Martin. This was just the start of many acts of hatred that followed, however with that “many new organizations, organizers, and coalitions have sprung up with rapidity to challenge [this] systematic racism” along with some “experienced organizations [who have] taken leadership in cultivating the recent burst in political energy…[to discuss] race, police violence, and institutionalized discrimination [as they move] into mainstream contexts”(pg 3). Garza, one of the founders of the BLM movement, feels as though “as BLM has increasingly gained attention in the media, more and more organizations have started to borrow BLM phrasing in order to generate for their own causes,” such as “#NativeLivesMatter, #LatinoLivesMatter, and #AsianLivesMatter”(pg 3-4). Some even went as far as changing “the title of an event from ‘Black Lives Matter’ to ‘Our Lives Matter’…to be more inclusive of all people of color,” ultimately defeating the whole purpose of this entire movement. Ramos, the author, feels as though non-black people of color, such as asians or latinos, appropriate the #BlackLivesMatter for their own purposes and