#AllLivesMatter

Black  Lives Matter is a movement aimed towards protecting the Black community from being directly targeted due to skin color. There have been many events, in our past and present, where the Black community has been racially profiled and been harmed due to something out of anyone’s control. The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has been around for a while now and I believe it definitely has brought light to the situation. A hashtag has become a movement that has grown tremendously over the past couple of years. Chokshi states in her article, How #BlackLivesMatter Came to Define a Movement, “The hashtag had a small, but sustained increase in use in the summer of 2014, when Michael Brown and Eric Garner died in encounters with the police, focusing a national discussion on race and policing and elevating a phrase that would define a movement.” The numbers of this hashtag is constantly growing due to events that continue to happen, some in our control, some out. The director of internet, science and technology at Pew, Lee Rainie, states “This is a very powerful example of how a hashtag now is attached to a movement, and a movement, in some ways, has grown around a hashtag — and a series of really painful and really powerful conversations are taking place in a brand-new space.” Phrase or not, all lives do matter. I really do believe that no one has room to judge anyone. We are all humans, we all make mistakes, we are not perfect. So why do we try so hard to be superior over each other? Take away our hair color, our eye color, our height, our sexuality, our race, what do we have? At the end of the day, we are all comprised of bones and matter. There is no reason to go on judging people when everyone is never going to be the same. In the Bible, John 8:7 says “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” This is something very cliché to state but it does make sense. We ourselves are not perfect, so how can we expect anyone else to be? People talk about racism and how it needs to disappear. Racism stays because people talk about it. It stays because media make minorities look dirty, poor, and ghetto. Everyone just thinks all minorities are just what media portrays them to be. Which is very false majority of the time. Then when the white community does the same crime as minorities, the minorities are more likely to be punished much more cruelly because of their ethnicity. People think they are dangerous humans, which is very, very false because that is not always the case. Color of skin does not determine whether you are going to be deviant or good. We are all human beings trying to live our lives one day at a time. Some lives can be harder than others, but we all have our own paths to follow. Everyone’s life matters, no matter the color of their skin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/us/how-blacklivesmatter-came-to-define-a-movement.html