Black Lives Matter Reflection

I have always been bothered by things such as racial discrimination, racial slurs, and I absolutely hate police profiling. There was so much chaos and rage of the racial police brutalities against African Americans. So there for Black Lives Matter was created. The founders of the tribute was Alicia Garza, Patriss Cullors, and Opai Tometi. The formation started July 13, 2013 in the United States. My personal experience and reaction to it is I just want a better justice system in the United States. In my personal opinion there needs to be change in our criminal justice system, because I remember back in 2012 the young African American male Treyvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman. For me the worst part about it was it was all a misunderstanding but yet the young man was still shot anyway.

Zimmerman shot the young man because he thought he had a gun on him which he actually didn’t, but because of Treyvon Martins skin color Zimmerman thought he was reaching for a gun. I have had experience myself with someone racial profiling me and it’s really not a great feeling at all. “So in 2013 the movement began with the use of the hashtag Black Lives Matter on social media”. Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstration’s following the 2014 deaths of two African American Michael Brown resulting in protest and unrest in
They are one of the few leaders in the nation who has what it takes to lead something as empowering as Black Lives Matter. Hopefully one day we can all live equally without our race, gender, sexuality, or what we believe in creating a barrier between us all.” Also since the Ferguson protest participants in the movement have demonstrated the deaths of numerous other African Americans by police custody including Jonathan Ferrell, John Crawford, Ezell Ford Laquan McDonald, Akai Gurley, and Freddie Gray.in the summer of