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No title yet For five years now, the Black Lives Matter movement has endeavored to handle the systematic racism present in the US which dehumanizes and depreciates the existence of African American people. The Black Lives Matter protests have followed the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police officers. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the many African-American activists throughout the 20th century. He and his fellow followers swayed more to being a peaceful activist group rather than fighting for what they chose to accomplish. The national response to the death of Martin Luther King Jr. alongside progressing fights over social equality plunges a generally separated country further and further towards convulsion. Over time the movement’s focus has been less about changing specific laws and more about fighting for a fundamental reordering of society wherein Black lives are free from systematic dehumanization, and the movement's decision to stray away from customary ideals is restricting the overall opportunities and success.
Racism has been in America and throughout the world for centuries from the times the African natives were enslaved to work on plantations and factories, and even within today's societies there is still racism within our world. Many White Americans created organizations to harm African Americans. An association called the KKK or The Klu Klux Klan is a prime example of this. Established in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan reached out into pretty much every southern state by 1870 and turned into a vehicle for white southern protection from the Republican Party's Reconstruction-time approach, highlighting setting up political and money-related decency for Black Americans. Despite the way that Congress passed legislation planned to check the KKK's psychological oppression, the affiliation saw its essential objective, the reclamation of racial mastery fulfilled through Democratic victories in state chambers across the South during the 1870s. After a time of decrease, white Protestant nativist gatherings restored the Klan in the mid-twentieth century, consuming crosses and arranging rallies, marches, and walks criticizing foreigners, Catholics, Jews, and African Americans and coordinated work. The social equality development of the 1960s additionally saw a flood of Ku Klux Klan action, including bombings of Black schools and places of worship and savagery against Black and white activists in the South.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the biggest advocates for African Americans. MLK fought for basic civil rights for African Americans. In comparison to BLM, Martin Luther King’s wise speaking toward achieving civil rights for African Americans is very similar to BLM’s protests. The Black Lives Matter Movement also confronts some of the same issues that previous black liberation movements addressed: that, black people are seen as criminals and black bodies are expendable. Both movements have been opposed to racism and systemic oppression. Many see BLM as the new civil rights movement. That movement, from 1954 to 1965, demanded basic equality for African Americans. Black Lives Matter has focused on police abuse of African Americans. To that end, it is instructive to examine the similarities and differences between the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Systematic racism is the main ideology the group Black Lives Matter or BLM is based on. BLM was created In July 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin 17 months earlier in February 2012. Over the years there have been countless shootings and deaths of African Americans. Some have been reported and exploited, others are kept silent from the public. Recently, 2020 was a big year for BLM protests, many protests were all around the world and on the news for weeks. Some protests were peaceful and others were extremely violent, robbing stores, shootings, fighting police, vandalism, etc. The majority of the rioting was because of the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, amplified the Black Lives Matter movement and immediate need for action. As a result, rapid change has swept the country, including here in Iowa City. Accelerated by local protests and calls for justice, the City of Iowa City has committed itself to strengthening existing social justice and racial equity efforts as well as re-imagining new strategies for dismantling systemic racism in our community. The death of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker who was shot and killed by Louisville police officers in March during a botched raid on her apartment, has been one of the main drivers of wide-scale demonstrations that erupted in the spring and summer over policing and racial injustice in the United States.
In general, there are many things BLM could take away from the civil rights movement as a whole. One was the civil rights movement was primarily a peaceful protest for people of higher class in government to understand the struggles and the wants of African Americans. There were many protests throughout the world from people of all races who believed that it was time to let go of the past and start a new way of living. That all men and women were created equal, and for this statement to be truly accepted by one another. On the other hand of the spectrum BLM protests were extremely violent, with many people getting hurt in the streets, copious amounts of arrests, extreme looting of stores, and many other extreme occurrences throughout the summer of 2020. Black Lives Matter though considered as continuing the struggle for black liberation where the Civil Rights Movement left off, is indeed similar in many ways but vastly different in others. Because of the relative infancy of Black Lives Matter, it is difficult to make a complete comparison with the Civil Rights Movement. One major difference, however, is the leadership structure of the two organizations. Black Lives Matter has rejected the Civil Rights Movement’s “hierarchical style of leadership, with the straight black male at the top giving orders.” As a movement, it is highly decentralized and unstructured.
Throughout the course of time, African Americans have struggled and fought their way to where they are today within society. With the start of the civil rights movement, African Americans tried to show they were “worthy” of having full citizenship within the United States. To BLM protesting against Police to stop killing our loved ones and to exile the systematic racism in our country. Over time everything will settle down and we will hopefully live in a world where there is no social injustice or systematic racism defined within a specific race of people, but for now, in the state of the world we are long from this utopia we all hope for.
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