Civil Rights Act: The Black Lives Matter Movement By Patricia Collins

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Civil Rights Act- the benefits of being privileged allow you to navigate through society with ease in areas of employment, social economic status, and other social institutions. Those who are not privileged do not receive such benefits and fall short because of it. The oppressed group often consists of minorities, in which some cases are members of the “ Black Lives Matter” movement. Many is individuals don’t fully understand the “Black Lives Matter Movement”. Some members of society define the movement as segregation within communities that are being oppressed. This is conceptualized by the term “new racism”, invented by Patricia Collins. This new form of racism is not like the older Jim Crow Laws and is harder to distinguish from as well.

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