Persuasive Essay: Do Black Lives Matter?

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Black lives matter” a slogan representing the plea of thousands from a new movement against anti-black racism is simple yet brilliant. But the sayings ability to express so much in so little isn 't as powerful as it its painful, to realize that this message needs to be asserted in a society that claims that racism isn 't prevalent. Many shouting the slogan are young blacks who feel dismissed between the higher power of government and surroundings in their everyday lives. No, Governor O’Malley did not mean any harm while saying “All lives matter.” as a response to the question “Do black lives matter?” and he later admitted to not fully understanding the depth of the movement and the meaning behind the question. But, many others are all proclaiming …show more content…

But it has been growing well before this one incident. During the 1950s and 1960s, overt racism became illegal and less socially acceptable. This allowed most of America to believe that racism was, in fact, over and enabled people to place the ongoing struggles of the black community as a simple “character flaw”, this allowed issues within the community to be often dismissed and seen as just a simple way of life. Sally Kern, an Oklahoma State Legislature stated that, as she taught school for twenty years, she noticed “ … a lot of people of color didn 't want to work as hard, they wanted it given to them” all the while Bill O 'reilly, famous television host on Fox News, promotes the idea that “young black men often reject education and gravitate towards the street culture, drugs, hustling, and gangs.” closing off with the statement that “nobody forces them to do that, it is a personal decision.” But to our society today, that 's not racism. That 's just simple facts, now while majority of America would never be as blunt about their ideas of Black America as Kern or O’reily, similar sentiments are echoed everywhere within our society. And the ongoing message within these remarks is that “to be black is to be inferior”. But that 's not fact. That is just …show more content…

On the website created for the “BLM” movement, it reminds readers that the movement itself “goes beyond extrajudicial killings of black people”. This movement is not an anti-police movement. A fact that many people fail to understand. As Jesse Peterson writes about his ideas of the “BLM” slogan, he represents many other americans with the same mindset and way of understanding. “Black Lives Matter[...] seeks to give black people the impression that white people and cops are conducting a killing spree against them.” Simply uneducated on the meaning behind the slogan, people such as Jesse Peterson are simply a click away to realizing the real reason behind the movement. Yet, many Americans will never feel the need to look up, or become educated on the topic. Knowing this, Obama attempted to explain the reasoning behind the slogan explaining how people were interpreting it incorrectly “It started being lifted up as ‘these folks are opposed to police, and they’re opposed to cops, and all lives matter[...] or suggesting other people’s lives didn’t matter or police officers’ lives didn’t matter” he then pointed out that saying “black lives matter” is not about reducing the importance of other groups. It 's about the human right that the

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