Black Lives Matter Movement Analysis

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I chose the Black Lives Matter Movement because I thought that it related well to what happened before the American Revolution. The article, “The Creation of a Movement”, which is from blacklivesmatter.com, was very informing. The creator and author of this website, Alicia Garza, is dedicated to making black lives equal and respected in not only America but in all of the world. The informing article I chose talks about the Black Lives Matter Movement. It was made as a call to action, after the Trayvon Martin case. The Black Lives Matter Movement is “an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise.” Cultural workers, artists, designers, and techies all help out …show more content…

Black Lives Matter protesters are like the colonists, they are fighting for a change, while police officers and other officials that disagree with this movement and think it is absurd, are like the regiments sent from Britain who want the people to calm down, and to stop rebelling. Many people in the Black Lives Matter Movement are holding protests, some of these turning into riots, and other people, the more extreme ones, are doing harm to officers. This is creating havoc in the country. People are either choosing to stay neutral(all lives matter), go with blue lives matter(police lives matter), or the go with Black Lives Matter Movement. This is just like the neutralists vs. Britain/loyalists vs. patriots back in the American Revolution. Some of these protests are actually going on in schools. For example, in Buckeye, Arizona, there was a girl who wore a Black Lives Matter t-shirt and was told to take it off. But another kid, at the same school, wore a confederate t-shirt and wasn’t told anything. Now, the student, along with others, are protesting. People want a change just like how the colonists wanted a change. And some, sadly, want to get what they want, and they don’t care about bloodshed. The Black Lives Matter Movement group has settled down, not a lot of things concerning this group is on the news at this time besides a few protests, but if the

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