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

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

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