Black Lives Matter: A Response to Racial Injustice

President Obama said, “When people say Black Lives Matter, that doesn’t mean blue lives don’t matter.” On August of 2014, The Blacks Lives Matter movement began. The movement started because of a white police officer that shot a black man named Michael Brown. Micheal Brown was just eighteen years old when he was shot to death. The cops say it was because they thought he was pulling out a weapon. But some are not sure if it was real because of a weapon or racial injustice. If it was just because of racism and personal thoughts the man should not be allowed to be a police officer if he puts other people in danger. This is not the first time racism has taken place within the police department. It occurred that day just like it did back in the

1400´s. Racism takes place today when you walk down the street and you hear racist comments, or there is racism on social media. Why did blacks and whites become separate identities? Why were blacks not treated not equal to any other race? Alicia Garza Wrote “I continue to be surprised at how little Black lives matter, And I will continue. [S]top giving up on black life.” In this paper, we will research how blacks and whites become separate identities in America with racial injustice, inhuman slavery, and a brutal mortality.
Back in the day racial injustice was a problem like it has become in today's society. On January 9, 1961, a white male got the first black students suspended from school University of Georgia. Later a judge ordered the University to let the black students back into their classes. And recently in November of 2016 black students at the University of Missouri, talked about all the racism and harassment by white students. Are we sure it's just the blacks being affected by their color? In January of 2017 two black females and two males brutally beat up a white male. He was kidnapped by the group and was held captive for hours. The male was suffering from mental health challenges. Why do people feel like they are more important than other people? Why do we have racism in today's society when everyone has equal rights? Rylie Baldwin wrote ¨ Why are we still having racism in today's society? If they are Black or White we are all humans” (whom).

All of these men are getting shot for no reason, ninety-five percent of these men are African American. Why are we shooting these men that have not done anything to us? Most of all blacks that were shot and killed by police were armed. But were all these weapons actual guns. A portion of the weapons were baseball bats, knives, and machetes. Most commonly in these cases, the guns were fake guns, toy guns, BB guns, and air guns. Out of seventy-seven cases of shootings, thirty-six percent were black men. Rylie Baldwin wrote, “ If all these shootings out of 95% are African American, why did they shoot them.”(Kar). On October 25 of 2016 in Minnesota, a black man was supposedly walking down the middle the street. A police officer was accusing him of walking down in the middle of the street inappropriately. He arrested him and was charged for not obeying the traffic signals. If everybody is not treated equally then why can whites not obey the law or traffic signals? Why are they not getting in trouble? If black people are not being treated equally then why do we have the Equal Rights Act? Rylie Baldwin Said, “ If we have equal rights then why are black people are being treated not equal” (Gol).
Back in the day, black people suffered from inhuman slavery There were four different ways that blacks could be tormented during slavery.

The ways of tormenting are shackling, branding, brutal whipping, and cruel execution. Shackling was used back in the day to tie them up by their wrists, neck, or legs. They would brand slaves to identify the job or purpose of the slave. The brand was usually located on the shoulder, palm of the hand, back, and the abdomen. Brutal whipping was a way to punish the slaves. They got wiped every time they did something wrong. A number of times they got whipped depended on the seriousness of the situation. Lastly, cruel execution, the types of cruel execution was lynching and burning. Most of the execution was by hanging them, but if they wanted to make it more brutal they would hang them with a hook in their lung. Rylie Baldwin Said “ Back then why did white people feel like they are so much better than blacks. Better enough to hang them without any second thought”(8 Mo). Sexual assault is one way of punishment for the slaves. A Lot of these slaves were married outside of slavery. Their master sexually assaulted them and got them pregnant. So why were they not charged? Someone sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl and was in judicial custody. His charges were dropped and she is not in judicial custody anymore. Why did they drop the charges? What makes them think that he is not going to sexual assault someone else? If a black man sexual

assaulted someone he would be executed. Mathewson said, “The majority of women in slavery have children outside of marriage, partly because they are so often raped by their masters, or encouraged into sexual relationships from a young age but denied the right to marry formally”(CNN). In 2013 there was still 29.3 million slaves.These slaves were not like maids. They lived in a place where they were forced to get married to someone, forced to labor in hard working jobs that no other person would do. These slaves were forced to be prostitutes and forced to be in the army, war, and to be soldiers. Mauritanians was still being slaves there. There was only one out of twenty-five people being enslaved. Rylie Baldwin said “ Why has slavery not been a law to not have equal rights. Are we still having slavery in today's society” (Fis)?
Back in the day, we had Brutal Mortality.

Black men were nine times more likely than American killed by a policeman in 2015. African Americans between the ages 15 and 34 were 15% more likely killed by a policeman. Blacks were 5 times higher deaths than whites by police officers. One out of 65 young African American killed by US police.Brittany Packnett said,“This epidemic is disproportionately affecting black people” (Swa). Black men are higher at dying than whites from cancer, homicide, heart disease, and AIDS. From 1999 to 2014 the black men suicide numbers had declined. Blacks numbers of homicide had decreased by 40% since 1995 to 2013, meanwhile, there is a 28% drop in whites. Cancer for whites is 20% where the blacks had a 29%. Why are blacks having a worse outcome than whites is it because hospitals did not want to treat blacks now or why? Why is black history worse than whites?Blacks are 15 less than whites in life expansion. Dr. Sampson said, “There are all kinds of negative consequences that flow from violence, in emotional responses, cognitive development, and links to future violent behavior” (Tav). Nine black people had died in a church at Charleston, South Carolina. Black people are at higher risk of homicide than white people. The data of not- Hispanic white Americans are 2.5 per 100,000 people. The on-Hispanic black American is 19.4 per 100,000 people. Why are black Americans more likely to be killed by homicide versus white Americans?Why are we having these

mass killing? Why is it only blacks that have mass killing? White Americans don’t have the great percentage of the black Americans do. Black Americans are eight times more likely to be killed by homicide than white Americans.
President Obama said,“We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries”(Nat).
It is important to remember that all lives matter always. Racial injustice was not just back in the day, we have it in today's society. Today’s society we are judging everybody by their color. We are judging everybody, instead of accepting who they are.