In 2013, three radical Black coordinators Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi made a Black-focused political will and movement development project called #BlackLivesMatter. This hashtag was made after the violent death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin at the hands of neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in 2012. The Black Lives Matter Movement is an ideological and political mediation in a reality where we bear witness to black lives who are deliberately and purposefully targeted for death. The Black Lives Matter Movement has developed into the biggest black driven crusade since the 1960s. While particular objectives and strategies for the movement shift by city and state, generally speaking the development tries to focus on …show more content…
As surprising as it is the slave trade could be dated back as far as the 15th century but didnt grow into how we know it today until the 17th century because of the discovery of the americas. Some people may believe that slavery was a choice but actually African Americans been fighting for their freedom since the slave trade. Just like those before them the black lives matter movement is something that has an affect on all black lives in america. From slave revolts to the civil rights movement and from that comes black lives matter. Black lives matter basically the modern day civil rights movement that took place in the 50’s and 60’s. Even though they may seem similar in ways but the movements have two different approaches. The Black Lives Matter Movement is an ineffective movement because they don't know how to gather enough support for their movement and because they are not learning from the civil rights movement that preceded …show more content…
The ideal itself is structurally sound resembling somewhat of Martin Luther King Jr ideals of bringing justice to the injustice and creating peace and prosperity. however they lack a precise and clear objective, bearing similarities to a blunt tool smashing there points without making a precise and clear dent while King’s movements was a finely sharpened arrow precisely aiming towards his goal. According to CNN article “ is black lives matter blowing it” by John Blake says that “They're not trying to speak White America's language”. Ultimately what this means is that the movement cannot produce excellent and memorable speeches and because of this “white America” cannot understand what the black lives matter movement is trying to do. Another reason why the movement is ineffective is because they have forgotten the teaching of the civil rights movement. Based on the research paper done by Kristopher B Burrell “Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Greater Vision: Manually Bending the Arc of Time Towards Justice” talks about how About how his tactics were to not only make the aware to others of the situation of segregation and discrimination but made aware is plans to the public”. This is relevant because this is not what the Black