Black Lives Matter Essay

Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead is a mother, activist, and professor. In her speech for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Memorial Convocation “From Black Power to Black Lives Matter,” she asked her audience, “What can you do and what are you doing?” This question resonated with me for I have asked myself the same question. When faced with the news of brutality and more lost souls, I cannot help but wonder what can be done about such injustice? This pain and disregard for human life, especially for…

December 1st, 1955, was a big day in African-American civil rights movement. A young African-American woman boarded the city bus in the “Colored Section”. When buses fill up with white people, bus drivers would move back the colored section and force blacks to move back and extend the white section. That day when Rosa Parks was sitting in the colored section, The bus filled up with more white people and the bus driver told…

minorities, racism still continues to thrive today. Many African Americans and minorities are still being treated unequally, and it is clearly shown in almost every part of social media and the news. The novel Black Boy by Richard Wright visually represents the effects of racism on a black boy growing up during the 1940’s. During Wright’s time racism was considered normal on a daily basis and many African Americans including Wright himself became oppressed and had to fear death when accidentally…

All lives should matter, regardless of religion, race, or even gender. Human being is equally by being born, though the same way of a woman giving birth. We all breathe through the same air. However, being born into a world that is opinionated. Such as, enduring prejudice and discrimination in American life chance are to minorities that are mostly targeted it is African American and Hispanics or Mexicans. Because of the highest crime is what divide us as a social class; because both Hispanics…

government has not directly addressed this on-going issue. The famous shooting of Trayvon Martin, was the beginning of the black lives matter era. Black Lives Matter is an internationalist activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systematic racism towards black people. A police man wrongfully shot and killed a young black male and has since not been rightfully punished. As a knowledge person, I feel as if you shoot and kill an…

the issue is when the people are Black, just like the kid who was condemned for looking “like a thug”. This is Respectability Politics, which should no longer be tolerated, as they are a hindrance to both the subcultures in which they take place and society at large. Respectability Politics are defined as “attempts by marginalized groups to police their own members”. Respectability Politics in the Black community date back to the end of the 19th century, when Black women in the American Baptist…

get passed as seen in Treva B. Lindsey "Post-Ferguson: A "Herstorical" Approach To Black Violability", where she discusses the need for women’s voice to be heard, even within politics. She writes “The demand for recognition of the humanity of all Black people requires activists, allies, and the broader US public to critically consider the impact of state violence on individual Black people, Black families, and Black communities”. All of the US, including those with the majority of the power such…

freedom of black lives. The 1900s was a time African Americans were victims of Jim Crow laws which did not allow them to be treated as equals. This included segregation and prejudice actions toward black people. In the 1960s black people in the United States led the Civil Rights movement which resulted in black people being able to have the same rights as white people. However, till this very day in the 21st century black people have not had the same treatment as white people. Unfortunately,…

Groups such as Black Lives Matter, The Black Panthers, and other such groups may support the preservation of minority safety but definitely do not speak against violent protests like Dr. King did. For example, in the Ferguson riots the town was burned and looted in outrage on the…

expresses the difficulty that black folks had been facing at the time. American tends to denied the contributed that black folks have for America. Coates purpose is to acknowledge to his audience about the damage and mistreatment of blacks during the times after ending slavery in the…