Advanced essay #4 leon finney

In a Black Lives Matter Photo a crowd of people of all races were marching for the movement trying to bring  awareness that black people are getting brutally murdered on a regular basis by the very people who took an oath to protect and serve.  It was a great sight to see that all these races can come together for a very important cause. The crowd covered as least a block and a half and in the very front were two black and three white people holding a black lives matter poster. Many people believe that the BLM movement is exclusionary because “All Lives Matter” however this stance makes inconsequential and very important movement in our history. Of course All Lives Matter, however “All Lives” are not disproportionately targeted for death by the police and the judicial system - black lives are.

Black People being brutalized by Law enforcement is a stain on the American culture and it is not getting better. In fact, with the advent of social media many instances of abuse have been brought to light nationally - it becoming harder and harder to hide deaths by the police. With video sharing sites such as youtube and snapchat we are now seeing the many instances of unwarranted abuse and deaths by law enforcement that the New Media doesn’t like to share. In 2015, it's not the American justice system that's bringing attention to the disproportionate number of African-Americans being murdered by police, but smartphones and social media platforms, (cnn.com, 2016). This helped bring about the success  of the BLM movement. Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise, (Black Lives Matter, 2016).

                    The Guardian said 32% of African-Americans killed were unarmed while 15% of whites and 25% of Latinos did not have weapons (cnn.com, 2016) even with these states their is still that argument that Black Lives Matter is a movement that instead should be called all lives matter know I agree with that to an extent but the facts show that for some odd reason  black people are having basically hate crimes committed against them and we as a country should do something to try and stop these tragedies , because when incidents like what happened to young Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner etc..and nothing happens to the police who did these crimes and we as a black people are just left to sit back watch and just protest there is something going on that is very wrong and I feel we need to make a change, how we approach it I don't have all of the little details yet but I do know that this needs change quick before mass destruction is upon us and there's a war between the force and civilians because I know there are many out there like me who are tired of watching this go on.

            The United Nation as well as many other political groups saw there was a need that the united states have failed to address and decided to offer their advice. The United States accepted most of the recommendations from United Nations member states on combatting racial discrimination, racial profiling and the use of excessive force by police officers... “One of them is to create a national commission to look at police practices nationwide and come out with recommendations specifically around the policing of communities of color and the excessive use of force.” (AlJazeera, 2016).  I believe that there needs to be an impartial party, someone not affiliated with the justice system, like a security firm to evaluate the police and determine if there was any wrongdoing. I believe that the police need to have people monitoring them as well. I think that the justice system needs to take the findings of that third party seriously and reprimand those who are found guilty.

        Lynching has been a part of the American culture since the Slavery times and it has not changed it just been kept quiet. However, social media is putting an end to that. We are now seeing that it’s not just average people committing these crimes but people that we are told that we can trust. In the end, if we are not proactive and take this thing seriously nothing will change and black people will continue to die. Also if we elect Donald Trump we can forget about the BLM movement – He has stated that he is openly against it.

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