Negative Effects Of Black Lives Matter

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“The more costly a decision, the more irreversible its consequences, the greater the dissonance and the greater the need to reduce it by overemphasizing the good things about the choice made.” (Williamson 2) Who’s to say that the decision made by the law enforcement officer or officers was ever the wrong thing to do? Is it our own personal beliefs or is that the law says that it’s not the right thing to do? (Williamson 2) When a police officer is committing the crime of hurting that other human being he is just doing his job at the time he doesn’t believe what he is doing is wrong he is just fitting the part trying to do his job to his best ability. (Williamson 3) Just like the person getting beat isn’t doing anything wrong as humans we always …show more content…
What it is a group of white people and black people who are about each other and know that they are all human beings and that their lives matter because yes, all lives matter but we are mostly focused on the black ones right now. It is very apparent that our judicial system doesn’t see that the black culture in out country is hurting because of this. If you are one of the people who can’t see what people are exclaiming #blacklivesmatter you are a part of the problem. (Cobb 3) A common misconception of the black lives matter protests is that they are saying is only the black lives matter when really they are just saying that black people just want the same rights as white people. Seems that the battle against racism is still going on too close to home doesn’t it? (Cobb …show more content…
The people against it don’t think that they have an advantage because they are white. (Cobb 7) Some think that it is just because everybody nowadays gets offended by all the little things that don’t matter and about presided slights. Some people are scared while some are getting defensive and if I were to bet it bet that most of us aren’t even paying attention. “Black Lives Matter, to use an analogy, is like if there was a subdivision and a house was on fire, the fire department wouldn’t show up and start putting water on all the houses because All Houses Matter. They would show up, and they would turn their water on the house that was burning because that’s the house that needs help the most.” (Mackelmore

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