...Love / Hate War “There comes a time when silence is betrayal (King Jr.) “The movement called black lives matter could be said to be a more advanced Civil Rights Movement of 1868. Black lives matter is a more advanced movement from the Civil Rights. Focusing on the racism exhibited towards blacks (or people of color). The black lives matter movement got its uproar in 2013 when young, Trayvon Martin was shot and killed, he was subjected to an unfair trial and received no justice. The controversy of the black lives matter movement does not cause any harm as if it only benefits society. The awareness of what is really going on right now in the country would not be as focused on and addressed if it wasn’t for the black lives matter movement. The...
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...comic is to focus on the overall meaning and understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement. Following the comic, author and creator, Kris Straub, offers his opinion on the matter, saying, “the point is, all lives do matter, but lives in mortal peril need more immediate consideration than those that aren’t. That’s not to say there aren’t different levels of jeopardy in everyone’s lives, all of which need to be addressed. There’s always someone with a worse situation, and we get to decide which one to put our energy into…. Yes: all lives matter… ‘black lives matter’ never meant ‘only black lives...
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...Gabriel Rodriguez Professor Kimpel December 4, 2011 SOC 209 In Cornel West’s book “Race Matters” he discusses a few themes and gives his readers on thoughts on African Americans in society. He also speaks out on issues that he believes are very important to black America such as Nihilism, his views and the views of Liberal Structuralists and the conservative behaviorists, and the crisis of no leadership in black America. These to me are the important themes that need to be shown in order for there to be change in society. Before one goes into the views of the two comps and leadership issue one must understand the importance of Nihilism. Nihilism in definition is the total rejection of laws and institutions already established. However West’s makes it more than this as he makes references in his work that it has now become a disease, “ Like alcoholism and drug addiction, nihilism is a disease of the soul”. He continues on making references that this “virus” cannot be completely cured but it can be stopped and have its effects reversed. He believes that this threat of nihilism in black America cannot be stopped merely debates and analyzing the situation but can be controlled by love and care. Through these two cures it will give people a chance to believe that there is hope for the future and give meaning to struggle. With these two factors it supposedly increases the modes of self-valuation and encouraging political resistance in an individual’s community. West’s also...
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...Well established writer and author, Leonard Pitts, in his column, “Why ‘Black Lives Matter’ Resonates”, discusses the ignorance of misinterpretation about a specific people who aren’t receiving equal quality of life. Pitts’ purpose is to enlighten the readers on the distinct difference between the phrases “All lives matter” and “Black lives matter”. He creates a serious tone to establish to the readers his opinion that “All lives matter” is irrelevant and ignorant in the topic of “Black lives matter”. Pitts begins the column with a short thesis stating his opinion about the phrase “All live matter” being morally weak. Pitts states, “This is a column about three words of moral cowardice: ‘All lives matter.’” By doing this he is letting the readers...
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...All Lives Matter “All Lives Matter” is a slogan that has come to be associated with the criticism coming from the “Black Lives Matter” movement. This slogan is used to proclaim that the “Black Lives Matter” slogan overlooks the importance of every other race besides the African American race. A person does not have to be the smartest human being on earth to understand that the phrase explains that black lives also do matter. “All Lives Matter” helps to show that no life is more important than another. The Civil Rights movement “Black Lives Matter” originated in 2013 after George Zimmerman was found not guilty on second degree murder of Trayvon Martin (Black 1). George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, called 911...
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...think that they both argue is for a shake up of the system that has allowed for racism to continue under the guise of necessity, and protection for so long which has inevitably influenced the crime and poverty within the nation. Two of the points they mention that I found incredibly interesting were the “All lives matter” discussion and colorblindness, as well as the solutions provided on how this situation can be handled and resolved. Judith Butler argues in the article “What’s Wrong With ‘All Lives Matter’?” that by trying to be inclusive and using the phrase, “all lives matter” it inadvertently diminishes the purpose of “black lives matter” by refusing to address and solve the initial problem presented by this movement. She states that “Claiming that 'all lives matter' does not immediately mark or enable black lives only because they have not been fully recognized as having lives that matter.” and also brings up the topic of “race-blindness” that is further elaborated on in the other article (Butler, 6). In “Post-Racial Racism: Racial Stratification and Mass Incarceration in the Age of Obama” Ian F. Haney Lopez mention “colorblindness.” This much like the “all lives matter” topic...
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...current media there have been multiple cases of police brutality, racial profiling, and overall general violence towards black people in the U.S. It is astonishing how many incidents have been occurring lately. Therefore, many protests and riots have occurred to fight back against theses injustices. One of the organizations that were created in order to bring awareness to the reoccurring issue of inequality and violence towards black people is a movement called Black Lives Matter. As injustices continue to occur, the Black Lives Matter movement becomes more popular and the issues towards black people are starting to be heard. The growth in awareness of how people with dark skin are treated...
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...A pastor in a small town in Connecticut delivers a speech of a secret sin wearing a black veil. The townspeople immediately begin to gossip. Some people say he's mad while others say he's covering his shameful sin. After the sermon, a funeral is held for a young lady who recently passed away. Mr. Hooper decided to stay for the funeral and continues to wear the black veil . The people then begin to judge him for wearing this mysterious black veil. Even though most of the townspeople start making assumptions about Mr. Hooper and his black veil, he doesn't want others to question why he wears it. The only person who has the ¨right¨ to ask about the black veil was his fiance Elizabeth. Even though Elizabeth tries her best to find out the reason why Mr. Hooper never takes off his veil, she gives up and...
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...aware citizens completing sit-ins and boycotts challenging the societal norms of segregation and racism, but ignorant citizens demanding rights already given. Many revere the Black Lives Matter campaign as the birth of a new civil rights movement. To others the movement simply negates the substantial progress the civil rights movement made for the black man in America. The Black Lives Matter Movement emerged in 2012 shortly after a Florida teen, Trayvon Martin, was shot and killed by a white male, who later was found not guilty. The movement was first formed to combat and oppose police brutality that targeted the black community. However, the movement’s leaders released a list...
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...“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.” - (Ella Baker, 1964) The country’s history reverts back to enslaving our race and the killing of black men and women across the nation. Our ancestors have put their blood, sweat, and tears into making a better world for us. On February 2012, Trayvon Martin was killed by neighborhood watch member, George Zimmerman. Trayvon walked out of the store with his hoodie on, while carrying a bag of skittles, and a can of sweet tea. Zimmerman, believed Trayvon was a threat to his community and not thinking shot him 70 yards from his home. Martin, at the age of 17, lost his life because Zimmerman classified him by the color of his skin....
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...up with the culture we should come together as one. Hatred always comes up and we became prejudice towards different racial group. African Americans came up with a movement called “black lives matter”. Black lives matter is an activist movement founded in the United States by three black activist: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. Similar to the “all lives matter” movement that was in after Bush left the office. On Huffpost, David Goldberg came up with “"All lives matter" is a universal moral principle, a Kantian categorical imperative. Other things being equal, all lives matter, equally. Except when they don't. And they don't when other things are taken not to be equal. Like racial standing in a society such as ours. The universalizing politics of "All lives matter" is one of racial dismissal, ignoring, and denial. The insistence that Black lives matter accordingly is necessary only because, unlike "all lives," in this society, black lives are too often taken not to matter. Black lives are presumed too readily in the U.S. not to inhabit the universal.” This movement was to rebuild the black liberation movement. What started this movement? The Trayvon Martin incident after the murderer, George Zimmerman, wasn’t charged for the killing during the trail. Ever since that plethora of blacks getting killed by authority and unauthorized whites. We had Michael Brown who was shot by an Officer by the name Darren Wilson and was also not indicted by a grand jury. After that...
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... gender, race, minority, sexual orientation or economic status. Honoring and supporting the spirituality of each person. Valuing the dignity of all work. Promoting participation of all persons in the decisions affecting their lives.” This is the definition of respect, and is something that is very important to remember. Keeping this value in mind, we can challenge the view on racism and judging people for their appearances or beliefs. Providing information and continuing to bring attention towards it will greatly improve the attention needed for the movement, so that everyone can have an equal life...
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...Introduction : Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual, son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. As a specialist in American history, much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of the 20th-century American liberalism. In particular, his work focused on leaders such as Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 and 1956 , in the presidential campaigns he was a primary speechwriter and adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson II. Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy Administration, from the 1960 presidential campaign to the president's state funeral, titled A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, which won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 1991, when the end of the Cold War released long repressed ethnic, racial, and religious antagonisms, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. wrote a book that raised the discussion of multiculturalism in American society to a new level. Arthur Schlesinger Jr asks in his book: What does it mean to be an American? The classic image of the republic is that of the melting pot where differences of race, wealth, religion and nationality are submerged in democracy. But now there is a new orthodoxy: America as a collection of self-interest groups, celebrating difference...
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...Before we start I should state one thing, All Lives Matter, but right now we are going to specifically worry about the black lives. With that in mind, everyone from a young age is taught safety rules, we learn how to dial 9-1-1 in the case of a danger. Now while in our different homes we are taught a different set of rules. In a white home, they would learn that the police is there to protect them against all crimes that they may cross in their lives, so they should never second guess on calling them in times of need. While compared to a black family, we are taught that even though we are taught in school to call the police in the face of danger, we should never fully trust them, and always be aware of our surroundings when they are around....
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...Richard wright was born after the civil war but before the civil rights movement. If Wright were writing and autobiography titled Black Boy, Today in 2017, about a black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about the faults in the education system, police brutality towards black people, and about former president Obama becoming the first black president. The education system today is much better than how it was during Richard’s time but still has many faults. During Richard's time, school’s were segregated between white people and people of color. School’s for white students would have certified teachers, quality books, well built schools, etc. Whereas schools for colored students would have non certified teachers, hand-me-down...
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