Summary On Blacklivesmatter: Epistemic Positioning

The Red Record written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett opened the eyes of the people around the world to the horrific lynchings that had been happening. This book was directed to everybody to inform the world of the inhumane actions. If I were alive back in that time, this would have been motivation to make a stand. As it could have been motivation for the Civil Rights movement to begin. Being lynched served as punishment for pretty much anything that the mobs saw fit for an African American.

If it weren't for these prejudice thoughts, many people would be together united as one fighting to better one another. As Brent states in “Black Men and Public Space,” “the hatred he feels for blacks makes itself known to him through a variety of avenues - one being his discomfort with that ‘special brand of paranoid touchiness’ to which he says blacks are prone.” (514). Due to this fear of one another, it has brought much tension among many. This discrimination has been going on for many years and is what makes the United States divided.

I will be utilizing two sources for this paper. The sources are “Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case” written by Chris Crowe and “The Emmett Till story” by the Britannica Encyclopedia Online School Edition.

The murder of Michael Brown was one of the most controversial events we had seen in a long time. It brought up the topics of race and equality back into the mainstream radar. It rebirth the internet movement #BLACKLIVESMATTER as a form of protest and education to the new generation of social media users. As a result of the death of Michael Brown, the citizens of Ferguson, Missouri took to the streets to protest their indignation at the heinous crime performed by a police officer. The police reacted in a less than gentle manner and literally blocked media outlets from reporting on the scene.

The title of the article I chose to address is titled “The rise of Black Lives Matter: Trying to break the cycle of violence and silence”. This article extend beyond the idea of Black Lives Matter and wants the reader to be informed on what it is like to be black in america. The author includes a wide amount of information to help the reader understand why this cry for help was even created and why they want to stand up and make a change in our society. The purpose of this piece is to inform the general audience as to what Black Lives Matter really is and explain how they hope to rise as a movement. All though there may be issues within the group and outside forces that are wanting to go against them they will still not be silenced.

Governor John B. Floyd of Virginia, made a statement that cast the abolitionists in a negative light to describe the uprising be led by so called “unrestrained fanatics.” Based on the available historical literature and evaluations from historians discusses the one sided perspective of the abolitionist crusade. According to different studies on the subject, hardly any recognition was given to give credit to the results African American’s and their role in shaping the course of American history. the history of However, the radical abolitionist John Brown believed

I was already aware of the issue about discrimination towards blacks and how it relates to police brutality, but before reading this article, I never knew what the main reasons for the discrimination was. In 8th grade, I was supposed to write about a current event, something that had just happened recently. I chose the shooting of Trayvon Martin. At the time, this was a recent incident and it disturbed me that some man would willingly shoot and kill a teenager for no probable reason other than he found Martin “suspicious.” As the case went on to trial, I later found out that Zimmerman, the gunman, was found not guilty.

Racism can be followed throughout history to the colonization of America to the Age of Imperialism in Britain. To this day the way that African Americans have been depicted has determined how they are treated. To fully understand the effects of propaganda, it is necessary to be able to answer the question, To what extent has the marginalization of African Americans contributed to social and political movements in the Civil Rights Era? This is significant because the racial tension in the United States has strengthened with the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement.

This outraged many people, especially African Americans, causing multiple protests around the country. Activist Alicia Garza expressed her anger via Facebook using the hashtag BlackLivesMatter. Many activists also followed the hashtag, but it didn’t receive much attention until 2014 - when there were multiple incidents between police officers and African Americans. One of many is the Ferguson Unrest, which was ignited by the shooting of an unarmed teenager named Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. A white police officer shot Brown to death but was given a highly controversial verdict of “not guilty” by a grand jury.

Several media organizations have referred to it as "a new civil rights movement. " However, several conservative pundits have labeled the movement a "hate group”. As the outcome of Black Lives Matter, premature mortality rate for African Americans rises by 15

Voting is such a huge thing because you want to be able to have a say in who you think should run things based on if they win or not. Especially if that person has the power to change what happens around you. The U.S. Government claimed they listen to what many African Americans and minorities had to say about what was happening in America because it was pretty clear that America had a problem. A guy named Robert Williams mentions in his 1965 speech by calling America “Racist America”. He states that so many African American are terrorized, murdered, maimed, bombed, lynched, raped, starved, sterilized by the states and imprisoned.

“Many media outlets reinforce the public’s racial misconceptions about crime by presenting African-Americans and Latinos differently than whites- both quantitatively and qualitatively. Television news programs and newspapers over-represent racial minorities as crime suspects and whites as crime victims,”. A real-life example of this is Michael Brown, whose death was the catalyst for riots in Ferguson. Judges ordered his juvenile records to be released to lawyers, which sparked indignation in the community. The records were clearly released was to see if he was a “bad person”, maybe even deserving of his murder.

The media got peoples attention and made more African Americans around the US angry at the jury decision of Brown vs. Fergusson. The black people took the bait, went on rants, and started the “black lives matter” campaign. This could offend some white people who feel as if the African Americans are trying to make their lives matter more. The truth is that all lives matter. If the roles had been reversed, a black cop shot a white male, the white Americans would have not rioted or started a new campaign about how there lives matter too.

The Ku Klux Klan was the first ever terrorist organization to be formed in the United States which happened in 1865. When recognized of their motives the US quickly shut them down, but soon in the 1920’s they came back very prepared to terrorize people. Their main targets were African Americans and anyone that was gay

In 2013, a movement with the name of Black Lives Matter began to promote their slogan against police brutality and other injustices against the black community. The movement is supported by many other blacks and even the network B.E.T.. The main problem with this group is that they are segregating themselves from other races whenever they say "black lives matter". Black Lives Matter began three years ago, after the death of Trayvon Martin who was killed by George Zimmerman. Black Lives Matter campaigns against police brutality.