Compare And Contrast Blue Lives Matter

The Unites States is one of the utmost diverse countries in the world, yet there still seems to be hatred towards colored people or just people that happen to be different in general. Black lives matter and Blue Lives Matter have become two extremely well-known protest movements and both seem to be against one another for obvious reasons. The black community is against the police force due to shootings police have made towards the black community while the police force blames the black community for shootings against police officers. Both of these movements have their meaningful reasons, they both affect the safety of the community and neither should be against one another. One of the ultimate eye opening cases was when, according to npr.org
Colored children are now growing up with the mindset that they are in danger as the result of the race they were born with, children and even adults of color no longer feel safe. When a person is being pointed to by a gun, especially when a police officer is holding that gun, they cannot defend themselves and even if they could they most likely would not get far and even if they did they would allegedly end up facing charges when all they were trying to do was defend themselves. In other words, these people are defenseless. Blue Lives Matter also affects the safety of the community. These police officers are the ones that should be making the people of the community feel safe, but ironically they are the ones that are making the people feel threatened. Police officers have the right to use a weapon on any person if they somehow feel threatened and they usually do not face extreme consequences. There are also people that are part of the community that agree with the shooting of colored people, according to newsweek.com “The Harvard-Harris survey, released Monday, found only 43 percent of voters have a positive view of BLM, while more than half of voters—some 57 percent—have an “unfavorable view” of the organization”(Williams, 2017). This just shows how over half of that community are not in favor of a movement that stands for the well-being of a whole race and this is only in one community. There are an astounding
Another reason is that it doesn't make sense for the black community to be against the police force when there are police officers that are indeed black. Blue lives matter also has reason not to be against Black lives matter according to Michael Harriot, “There is a widespread belief that the Black Lives Matter movement is anti-police. They point to the Dallas ambush shooting where five cops were killed, even though Micah Johnson was found to have participated in many other organizations when police investigated his past and searched his online history—even the chief of the Dallas Police said they could find no affiliation with Black Lives Matter” (Harriot, 2017). In this particular case, there was no connection with the people that killed the police officers to black lives matter, just like there appears to be no connection with the other cases that have involved police officers being shot. These two movements do not have reason to be against each