Black Lives Matter: Chapter Based Movement

Black Lives Matter is a chapter based movement, meant to affirm the importance of black life. It hosts protests and voices against anti-black crimes committed against black people. “Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes.” as said by the Black Lives Matter website. The “extrajudicial killings” referring to the deaths of Black Americans caused by the police and independent persons. Black Lives Matter also stands tall next to the idea that ALL black lives matter. Breaking away from the ideology that only straight cis black men should lead the movement. The movement emphasizes the importance of female, queer, trans and disabled folk in the campaign as well. Black Lives Matter has chapters spread across the United States and one in Toronto. Each chapter holds many protests and events. Black Lives Matter has been described as “not your grandfather’s civil-rights movement,” contrasting greatly to the Civil Rights movement in the sixties. Going against the middle-class, church born ideology. In fact when former lieutenant of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Presidential Candidate and Civil Rights leader, Jesse Jackson tried to remark to
Institutionalized racism is systems in the government made to oppress minorities. Things such as the well known Jim Crow Laws, separating Black and White Americans and gave Black Americans terrible and lesser conditions. Or other less well known systems, such as housing and carving up neighborhoods . People have fought against them for years and some have succeeded, while some were knocked down by the government they were trying to change. This can be seen with the Voter I.D laws and Black Lives Matter paralleling to the systems that oppressed and the people who fought against those