Analysis Of Black Lives Matter

In Canada and the US today race relations are not as high as it should be between white and black people because of police shooting against unarmed black people. Those types of reports are on the news all the time and mentioned in political debates, especially in the US election between democrats and republicans. What interest the political parties and people the most is the organization called Black Lives Matter. The organization supported by Democrats and opposed by Republicans. The organization was founded by Patrice Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, after the George Zimmerman was not found guilty of shooting Trayvon Martian. The organization goal is to fight racial injustice against black people. (Rickford, R., 2016) What at stake
The problem with most people who support Black Lives Matter or not is that they have to use Cultural literacy. “The Cultural literacy requires the person to decode, understand, and use information from a variety of visual, audio, print, and multimodal texts.” (Blair, K., Murphy, R., & Almjeld, J, 2013, p.130) For example when people who do not support the group and hear the words Black Lives Matter, some people think that only Black Lives Matter no one else because they took it at face value and not decoding the information leading to the conclusion that the name of an organization is disrespectful to people who are not black. In contrast, to the people who support the group, who hear the words Black Lives Matter mean that the lives of black people matter too, it shows they have used cultural literacy to some extent because they did not take some of the information from face value. Ironically, the people in Black Lives Matter pay so much attention to police brutally against black people, but not focusing on issues like black on black crime and poverty among the community. To summarize, both proponents and opponents of Black Lives Matter do not use as much Cultural literacy when understanding the name of an
In the stolen sisters, it talks about how Aboriginal women were missing and murdered in Canada. In the response with the violence, it is noted that the Aboriginal women are often met with unimportance and systematic discrimination by police, government and society in general. In fact, overtime the disappearances and murders of those women are turned into cold cases and are forgotten. (Kubik, Bourassa, & Hampton, 2013, p.203) This relates to Black Lives Matter because they have suffered with similar hardships in the past with society, police and government because on how murder hate crime against black people either go unsolved or murdered. In Complexity of Identity it talks about how your identity will play a role in your life and it will be deal with difficulty. “The dominant group holds the power and authority in society relative to the subordinates and determines how that power and authority maybe acceptably used.” (Tatum, 1997, p.23) This relates To Black Lives Matter because some members in the past know what it like to be subordinates in society with no political power to fight the dominant group. For instance, in the past black people were subordinates to white people in society because of the Jim Crow law that separates whites from blacks. However, the law were harder to black people because they were prevented from buying guns which left them helpless from the Ku Klux Klan. To