Freedom And Equality: The Black Lives Matter Movement

Freedom and equality, that is what the Black Lives Matter movement stands for. It is what it fights for. The movement wants a country where everyone is united not different based on color.
African Americans play such an important part in history. Yes, African Americans are a set of diverse people with a unique culture. The Black Lives Matter movement was a vastly important movement within the African American community due to the fact that it, restored confidence, gave hope, and brought justice to millions of people. The Black Lives Matter movement is a movement created by African Americans to work for a world where African American lives are no longer routinely and intentionally prey for discrimination. The movement upholds their contributions

Philando was a man of peace and dignity. I ask you to at all times remain peaceful in your expressions of concern regarding his death at the hands of the police. I promise that we will not rest until justice prevails",(Fantz). Although these protests are peaceful in some cases, hundreds of people, not only African American are getting arrested. Black
Lives Matter is committed to yielding, reputing and proclaim the differences and commonalities. Racial inequality is a disparity in opportunity and treatment that occurs as a result of someone's race. Racial injustice has been around for decades. It is not only white and black anymore. Police brutality sparked riots in Jersey City, New Jersey, 1964. “Jersey City’s African American community of 280,000 people was primarily comprised of low-income families living in racially
Anderson 3 segregated neighborhoods plagued by police brutality, limited recreational resources, and poor environmental maintenance from the city government”,(E.J.I). African Americans want equality and they want to have equal rights. They want the same conditions that Caucasian people have. While segregation and discrimination were big deals back in the sixties, African Americans still fought

White and minorities support or oppose it also. “Support for Black Lives Matter is particularly high among blacks: 65% support the movement, including 41% who strongly support it; 12% of blacks say that they oppose the movement. Among whites, 40% express support, while
28% say they oppose Black Lives Matter”,(Horowitz). Most Americans do not understand the goals of the movement or what it stands for. Support among caucasians and other minorities is low,
“About a third (36%) of those who have heard about Black Lives Matter say they don’t understand its goals too well – or at all”,(Horowitz). Although people do not understand the goals, people believe it will be fifty percent effective. Will it be effective? I am skeptical right now but I believe there could be change. There is always a chance for racial equality and justice. Police brutality, a reason for the movement. Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Eric Garner, Freddie
Gray, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, and the movement starter, Trayvon Martin. These are just a few of the African American men and women killed at the hands of the police. Michael
Brown, eighteen years old, graduate at Normandy High School. “Brown’s mother,