The black lives matter movement focuses on the fact that black citizens have long been far more likely than whites to die at the hands of the police. Demonstrators at the black lives matter movement who chant the phrase “Black Lives Matter” today are fighting for the same rights their ancestors and civil rights activist fought for half a century ago. The organization is not asserting that black lives are seemingly more precious than white lives, or another other for that matter. The organization is proving the point that in a historical perspective. A third of police killings/brutality were against black people even though black people are 13% of the population in America. Black males aged 15-34 were nine times more likely than other Americans
