Black Lives Matter Movement Analysis SOC-701

Introduction

Black Lives Matter was established in the year 2013 after there was acquittal of Trayvon Martin's mother. This network is a global network foundation that has its network in the US UK and Canada. The mission is to eradicate white supremacy while building local power so that violence inflicted on black people and other vigilantes can be reduced. Black Lives Matter has an aim of combating and countering the actual violence therefore creating an imaginable space for black people(Clayton, 2018). Other organizations have emerged under the banner of Black Lives Matter most of the aim is to continuously promote policy reforms to end police brutality. A good example is the movement for black lives which is a collision of more than 50 groups that have continuously presented the interest of the black people. The national conference of black lawyers and other movements such as the Brooklyn Movement Center, Million Women Match, Cleveland and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights are some of the collisions that have been formed surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. Social media platforms remain one of the major ways of sustaining the Black Lives Matter movement(Tillery, 2019). The protests have been peaceful and when violence occurs usually because of counter-protesters. Despite this, the Black Lives Matter movements have used a diversity of tactics to deliver their protests.

Since the inception of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 there have been a lot of cultural impacts in terms of visual arts literature television songs films among others(West, Greenland, & van Laar, 2021). A lot of media outlets are using racial injustices and the Black Lives Matter movement to be able to propagate themselves. The culmination of this culture increases in popularity in the year 2020. The songs by Michael Jackson have been used lately in demonstrating the Black Lives Matter movement(Linscott, 2020).

The group of liberators believe in inclusive and spacious movement. The aim is to win and bring many people along the way and move beyond the narrow nationalism that is observed for the black communities(Carney & Kelekay, 2022). The aim is to continuously build the movement and to bring all people to the front. The Black Lives Matter movement believes that black people have one network and should not be marginalized. The aim is to contribute to society with the resilience of the black people striving for liberalization.

The movement returned to action in the year 2020 after the mother of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. During this protest, it is estimated that between 15 to 26 million people participated in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protest. It is considered as one of the largest movements in the history. The popularity of Black Lives Matter is continuously through the perceptions among Americans. Statistics conducted in 2023 showed that 51% of the adults expressed their support towards the Black Lives Matter movement. By the year 2020, 67% of Americans were supporting the Black Lives Matter movement(Arnold, 2023). Most of the supporters are people of colour who have a strong belief that their lives matter.

Researchers have explored activism education about the Black Lives Matter movement. Through the critical race theory, it has been possible to analyze their primarily youth-led activism that has led to robust mainstream viscous in terms of race but has failed in terms of education(Tate, 2019). While the Black Lives Matter movement has been able to reflect the specific needs of black people it has failed in terms of education, particularly in schools in the districts which are serving students of colour. Research shows that such schools are usually under-resourced within the urban communities and they are unable to teach and contextualize historical movements in terms of justice and racial equity(Ross, Winterhalder, & McElreath, 2023).

Neoliberalism can also be used to explain the political ideology which has dominated and maintained the economic concentration. Understanding the status quo of the growing inequality persistence in American institutions explains why facial discrimination remains a stigmatized identity among the US community(Dixson & Rousseau, 2022). Neoliberal economics continuously make implicit and explicit promises to black Americans and those living and a low socioeconomic status. There have been promises made to black people in terms of economic prosperity and relation to racial progress. However, these neoliberal ideologies have never been achieved. Some of the progress has been reversed. There is a huge gap between blacks and whites in America. This explains why there have been a lot of backlashes between blacks and whites in the US. Particularly cases of unemployment by the blacks have remained high compared to the weights(Tate, 2019). The same is also seen in education and access to health. The wealth disparities continue to persist even with high levels of education and technological development. It is believed that the financial agency and lack of economic security among blacks have yielded recent movements such as black lives matter.

It can also be argued that black utopias are an alternative way for black people to express their needs. Utopia has been seen and delivered by black people in the form of music literary works sports black women's leadership among others. Black Utopia is considered an important provocation and an agent is equal and political thrust that is used to send a message to the world about the black lives ideologies. The Black Lives Matter movement is one of the political ideologies that have argued against the negation of the fundamental tenets of the black people(Johnson, Tress, Burkel, Taylor, & Cesario, 2023). The Black Lives Matter movement is a black Utopia that is ambitious and bold and braces conversations around the black future. As speculative as it may be seen, Black Lives Matter movements continue to go beyond their transcendent and horrific boundaries that have been state-sanctioned by supremacies.

Black Lives Matter movements have been personalized in a universal way that it is critical and continuously creative to help the black man come into reality with the many challenges they are facing. The aesthetic values projected by black Utopia's informal superhero comics are equally envisioning future liberation. Social media continue to play a huge role in invisibilizing the black life movement. A growing body of scholars has noted that the social media experiences of black users have highlighted censorship separation and the erasure of black dignity(Johnson, Tress, Burkel, Taylor, & Cesario, 2023). Social media platforms such as Facebook TikTok and Instagram have been forced to apologize for censoring black content during the Black Lives Matter move. Critics have been made about social media platforms that are suppressing black stories and black content. This is exposing pressure technologies and online practices that have been embedded to devalue black lives.

The accumulative effect of daily racism and social-maker aggression has created a significant mental challenge and well-being among the blacks in Australia. Recent studies have shown theories affecting racial migrations and racial trauma on black peoples mental well-being(Dixson & Rousseau, 2022). The Australian society continuously believes that they are a post-ratio country ratio of dignity and diminishment among black people continues to be a witness(Ross, Winterhalder, & McElreath, 2023). There are critical racial discourses that are observed in Australia especially when it comes to compromising the rights of black people. The Australian community has been accused of failing to achieve the levels of dignity that are producing and intensifying experiences to show the dignified positions of the black people who are living in Australia. Revelation of human rights has been observed specifically in Australia. The benefits and the privileges that have been accustomed to the white people live behind the veil of profound multiculturalism and colour blindness. Experiences and poor outcomes of the black people living in Australia racism and other inequality such as unemployment are deeply ingrained within the Australian consciousness. The unconscious bias that is training the Australian community has made it acceptable and part of the lives of the white people to ignore the needs of the black people(Tillery, 2019). Australian culture has been racially gaslighting black people making them believe that their symbol and visceral experiences of racism have been exaggerated and made up.

Other critics of the black matter movement have argued that the movement is a Marxist movement considering that it is based on one of its co-founders who have trained the Marxists. On the other hand, other critics have noted that the movement has grown to a national and racist movement that is mainly supported by the Americans few of which will identify themselves as the Marxists. The movement has also received criticism from some of the black civil rights leaders such as Cecil Murray. According to Cecil, the Black Lives Matter movement is disrespectful and ineffective since they are just disruptive even making a lot of noise. The fundamentals of the movement have been criticized to be backlashing against white politicians. On the other hand, the All Lives Matter movement emerged apparently to polarize the effects of black lives matter. In some quarters activists are again that their campaigns are alienating people because of the negative attitude about American society(Arnold, 2023). Critics have specifically pointed out the role of law enforcement officers who are using overreaching tactics on black people. there has been a need for the civil rights movement leaders to consciously appeal to a steady environment and to emphasize socialism rather than identities in the form of race. Other critics of this movement have claimed that the movement has reduced academic inquiry leading to research bias. This is because the Black Lives Matter activists have repressed academic freedom. Other critics have noticed that the movement has a disconnect when it comes to underprivileged communities in America. The movement has also not been sufficiently focused on women, especially black women. This is because there have been kisses of black women being killed by the police.

Conclusion

The Black Lives Matter movement began in the year 2014. Its speech culminated in the year 2020 when George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Since then, there have been a lot of campaigns regarding Black Lives Matter. This has also given rise to other movements that are sharing ideologies when it comes to fighting for equitable resources among black people in society. BLM is built under the block Utopia and is arranged from a wide range of ideologies that are aiming at examining the independence of black people beyond their transcendence in state-sanctioned supremacy. Black Utopia has reoriented and changed the theories of conversation around the black culture. Neoliberalism and race have been pointed out as some of the reasons why there is a huge gap between blacks and whites in the US. This has contributed to a lack of resources in terms of education unemployment housing and access to health programs.

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