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The document summarizes an article about the Black Lives Matter movement. It discusses how the movement was fueled by issues of both class and race in America. While the Occupy movement brought attention to issues of class and the 99%, it failed to recognize how black Americans were at the bottom. The Black Lives Matter movement emerged to protest racial oppression and the many police brutality incidents where black lives were lost with no punishment. The movement aims to end anti-black racism, especially within law enforcement. It uses social media to gather large numbers of supporters from all races calling for the elimination of systemic racism.

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Black Lives Matter

The document summarizes an article about the Black Lives Matter movement. It discusses how the movement was fueled by issues of both class and race in America. While the Occupy movement brought attention to issues of class and the 99%, it failed to recognize how black Americans were at the bottom. The Black Lives Matter movement emerged to protest racial oppression and the many police brutality incidents where black lives were lost with no punishment. The movement aims to end anti-black racism, especially within law enforcement. It uses social media to gather large numbers of supporters from all races calling for the elimination of systemic racism.

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2016 Chyenne Buehrig

Professor Thibodeau

ENC Composition

January 25, 2016

“The Power of Black Lives Matter” an article by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington goes into his views

on the importance of the recent movement Black Lives Matter. He opens by bringing to light that

in the past several years we the American people have been faced with 2 reoccurring themes,

ones we have been faced with before but now new emotions and views on the matters are

surfacing. The 2 themes being class and race are forgotten, basically ignored, until a public

disaster brings them into play. They both still exist and both do matter. Going into detail he

breaks down the two issues, where class can affect the chances one is given in life, and your race

puts you at a certain level in the American nation. Emphasizing how these should be outdated

concepts and shouldn’t exist in this modern age, yet here we are.

Moving on to how class works and affects us, it’s brought to the reader’s attention a couple of

national outburst that brought our attention the reality of class. Such as the housing mortgage

crisis, opening our eyes to the true difference in class. The middle class saw the line between the

upper class and themselves. Bringing on the Occupy movement and the iconic phrase “We are

the 99 percent”. The occupiers were indeed the majority of the economic process in the states, it

kept many strong and connected through the fact of being in the same class in a sense. Though

there was a crack in the 99%, something that kept them from their true unity. Race. Because even

though the 99% were at the bottom, who was at the bottom of the bottom? Black Americans.
Darryl suggests, that the question on race is not about how race can matter with a black

president, but how a nation that had that happen can still ignore and brush over the dozens of

black American life issues. When we take a closer look at life issues and discrimination, it

happens mostly with race rather than class.

The Black Lives Matter movement is fueled by the black youth of America, they looked to the

system and saw more than the class flaw, what they saw was the racial oppression and tragedies.

Connecting to the Law, many of the police brutality events and police controlled deaths, and as

these deaths began being dismissed and gone without punishment the outcry grew.

In the article we read that the purpose of Black Lives Matter is to say “no more” to a world

where the Black lives are shown hostility and ill will, just for being black. Given to us by one of

the founders of Black lives matter Alicia Garza. The foundation was founded after one of the

first national events the murder of Trayvon Martin, social media lit the fire bringing attention to

the organization and what they stand for. Social media plays a huge part in this movement, as it

reaches hundreds and thousands of people and gathers them together for the cause. It gives

another voice, a louder voice at volumes unthinkable before this technological age.

Black lives matter, this is a call coming not only from black youth, but people of all races all

with the aim to eliminate the systematical racism within many people of the law. We are given a

quote from one of the founders on her thoughts on the people who are trying to change black

lives, to all lives. She argues that it would have the movement lose its core and its purpose, the

movement was founded to uproot anti-blackness racism, to fight and put an end to that in law

enforcement.
Darryl finishes by emphasizing how Black lives matter is necessary to fight what we as

Americans have been ignoring for such a long time, that we cannot sweep race issues under the

carpet and believe they are gone. Black lives matter is necessary to wake up our nation, so we

can become aware and hopefully, become stronger as one nation.

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