Persuasive Essay On Black Lives Matter

First of all as a young black and fairly educated black woman. I can honestly say yes. Black lives do matter. I have lived experiences both personal and distant that can make that hashtag equally a reality and true. Living a very diverse life and going to a university where you see less than 1% of people who look like you open your eyes to the down play of your very existence. Not acknowledging the worth of black lives is a problem that leads to police brutality, mass incarceration, and racial profiling; we are told that we are equal in the constitution, but at the end of the day it is because of the manipulation of society by the media that Americans don’t understand what the Black Lives Matter Movement is about. To start off with what the movement is fighting is the Manipulation of the mind being effects like propaganda, mass media, and not checking facts about assumptions seen or heard about African Americans or people of color. “We should be skepti­cal, however, of the supposition that the power of social pressure necessarily implies uncritical submission to it: independence and the capacity to rise above group passion are also open to human beings.” (Solomon 3) The group mind is a collective opinion influenced by a certain group of people internalizing values and in the state we are unaware

This movement was started after the deaths of those like who were murdered names Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Eric Garner. These innocent lives were taken by those who were manipulates by the line, seeing the lives of African Americans as worthless. “A growing number of Black Lives Matter activists—including the women behind the original hashtag—have been refocusing attention on how police brutality impacts black women and others on the margins of today’s national conversation about race, such as poor, elderly, gay, and trans people.” (Askoka