Personal Narrative: The # Blacklivesmatter Movement

I’ve always seen myself as a realist. I try to plainly say things as I see them with as little bias as possible. Alongside that I have also given my best effort to try and see things from other perspectives. There is always another way to look at life and all of its bits and pieces and I love challenging myself to do so. Frankly however, it is far from easy. Not as much seeing such things from a different perspective but rather accepting them as a perfectly legitimate way to view such a thing. Sadly, and to the disapproval and entertainment of some of my peers, the #Blacklivesmatter movement has been one of these things that I simply cannot accept in any other way besides how I see it. To me, #Blacklivesmatter is not an institutional way to …show more content…
To quote the great Kendrick Lamar, “If I told you a flower bloomed in the dark room, would you trust it?”. Even when we do succeed in this hateful society of ours, it’s seen as suspicious and even puts us more at risk. I think that the #Blacklivesmatter movement is also fueling this suspicion and negative stereotypes against us because of the fact that people use it aggressively and with much hate and resentment, and in my eyes this is wrong! One should not fight fire with fire! I mean I understand the passionate fury building up within our brothers and sisters but there are other ways of going about it! And even though the #Blacklivesmatter movement was created after the death of Trayvon Martin, we are still seeing black bodies fall and red blood spattered. And the #Blacklivesmatter movement has only proved to provoke and scare the people in which we want to assure and embrace as fellow civilized, peaceful, human beings. This movement to me is one of the things holding the African-American society back. It has stunted our progress. I see that our people are being unfairly killed. I see we are being unfairly treated. I see people giving me looks when I speak loudly or listen to rap music. And I …show more content…
I want you to understand why I feel the way I do about it. I’ve done the research, I’ve seen the results of the movement, and I can honestly say that both have disappointed me. I sincerely hope that from reading this that you will not immediately accept what I’m saying for it is nothing more than an opinion of how I feel, but really understand and acknowledge why I feel that way. I humbly thank you for taking the time and effort to not only read my paper but for reflecting on it and giving me the benefit of the doubt when introducing such a controversial and otherworldly