Racial inequality has been a reality in the United States for its entire history and presently continues to be a force that creates division among Americans. Many Americans believed that racism ended with the Civil Rights era in the 1960s, during which figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X led the movement for equality. However, it was not until 2014, with the death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man at the hands of a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, that racism beyond the Civil Rights era has once again come to prominence. With racism resurfacing, the current circumstances following the shooting of Michael Brown has initiated a movement for social justice for black people in the form of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) social movement, founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi.
BLM started with the aim of increasing recognition in regards to social inequality and police brutality against black people. As a policy advisor to this group, it is important that the successes of this movement are attributed to their efforts in recognizing primary …show more content…
Activists can pressure their state representatives to evaluate the constitutionality of the surveillance, which is a violation of their privacy. Keeping activists under surveillance implies that the individuals are suspects, which requires due cause. BLM activists can hire lobbyists to push state representatives to create laws that may implement a way to prevent the NSA and FBI from invading their privacy. Additionally the lobbyists may inform state representatives why surveillance violates their freedom of privacy, and the state representatives can appeal to the NSA and FBI through their power of the purse, and pressure them to fix their mistake or risk losing
BLM started with the aim of increasing recognition in regards to social inequality and police brutality against black people. As a policy advisor to this group, it is important that the successes of this movement are attributed to their efforts in recognizing primary …show more content…
Activists can pressure their state representatives to evaluate the constitutionality of the surveillance, which is a violation of their privacy. Keeping activists under surveillance implies that the individuals are suspects, which requires due cause. BLM activists can hire lobbyists to push state representatives to create laws that may implement a way to prevent the NSA and FBI from invading their privacy. Additionally the lobbyists may inform state representatives why surveillance violates their freedom of privacy, and the state representatives can appeal to the NSA and FBI through their power of the purse, and pressure them to fix their mistake or risk losing