The Unseen Impacts Of Protest Movement

The Unseen Impacts of Protest Movements Protests since the early 20th century have come to show great significance throughout our society by bringing people together and uniting their voices as a whole. Recent protests have been some of the largest in history and still play a huge culminating role in the public eye by expressing the nonconformity views of the protesters. The fear for claiming apprehension on policies and social trends worn on their faces as they struggle for their voices to be heard. While a percentage of their goals were in the end met, a great number were confronted with a negative result. Protest movements express grievances and initiate social reforms through the use of flaws and strengths. For many years, social protests
The early 1960s showed a great contrast between two powerful civil right leaders, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. King works prominently were based on nonviolence, at the same time Malcolm X was all about force and fights to win what was needed for equality. In order to understand the issue at hand, protesters have to put their perspectives aside and look at both the benefits and ill effects for protest movements. In many cases, these movements have shown negative end results. First and foremost, protesters see many uprisings occur almost every single week, but it is good to still see people unite and outcry on matters that they feel are not being fairly treated. The issue becomes that excessively unfocused disturbances can make a group of protesters lose track of what they’re really fighting
Less protests with better organization would double the effectiveness resulting in a better outcome. When protests happen as much as they currently are, the meaning is taken away because it often becomes the trend without the passion behind the cause. This is what makes noise, non-audible voices chanting together nonsense words from incoherent minds. "Designed to provoke, wreak havoc, and create chaos… They want the Internet to be flooded with images of police officers pepper spraying them, running them over with scooters, kicking, punching, dragging and beating them up" (“Protest Movements”). Chaos is what they get when things don’t start going the direction they had anticipated, the gatherings in the public areas start to rapidly diminish and the ones left behind are left with rage and anger and forget what a peaceful movement is really about. They want to bring awareness, but the nightmare occurs when they try to shove it down the other’s throats. In addition to only showing a biased example through social media to get more supporters, targeting the ones who are not aware of the current situations in