Persuasive Essay On Black Lives Matter

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Being that there cops killing young teens in America a movement was started too fight for their rights. Yes, I strongly believe that the Black Lives Matter movement is needed in our country. There have been way too many “incidents” in our country where police officers are killing off young black males and teenagers for no reason. Black lives matter is needed in our country because of all the bad things that are happening to the young black males. Nothing is being done to the police officers that are killing off the young black teens. In fact, all these killings were happening too much People started uniting and they started the Black Lives Matter Movement. It all happened when George Zimmerman shot young teen Trayvon Martin. The black community felt …show more content…

For example, in the article what’s the matter with “all lives matter “it says “When people say "All Lives Matter" in response to "Black Lives Matter," they are not simply opening their arms to the greater diversity of humanity. Instead, they are taking race out of the conversation. While the statement masquerades as a bright and inclusive light, in the shadow of this statement hides a willful ignorance of America 's racist past and present” .I agree with this quote from this text because that’s what they are actually doing to the black lives matter movement. Of course all lives matter but, in the black community there is more young black men are dying from cops. All lives matter movement was made to exclude the black lives matter movement as much as they deny it that’s the picture. They are just trying to take their eyes away from the black lives matter movement so they wont pay attention to that movement in particular. The media affects all of this, they show that the movement is violent and abusive but in reality they are not. There is pictures online where the movement gives back to the police officers like food and water and the thing they

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