Outraged and saddened after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed a Black teenager in 2012, Oakland, California resident Alicia Garza posts a message on Facebook on July 13, 2013. Her post contains the phrase “Black lives matter,” which soon becomes a rallying cry and a movement throughout the United States and around the world.
Garza said she felt “a deep sense of grief” after Zimmerman was acquitted. She was further saddened to note that many people appeared to blame the victim, Trayvon Martin, and not the “disease” of racism. Patrice Cullors, a Los Angeles community organizer and friend of Garza, read her post and replied with the first instance of #BlackLivesMatter.
As the hashtag became popular on Facebook and Twitter, Garza, Cullors and fellow activist Opal Tometi built a network of community organizers and racial justice activists using the name Black Lives Matter. The phrase and the hashtag were then quickly adopted by grassroots activists and protests all across the country, particularly after the subsequent killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and a number of other African Americans at the hands of police officers or would-be vigilantes like Zimmerman.
Simple and clear in its demand for Black dignity, the phrase became one of the major symbols of the protests that erupted after Brown’s killing in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. While polling showed that a majority of Americans disapproved of the Black Lives Matter movement when it first began, in the years following, support for its central arguments grew.
After the May 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis unleashed a nationwide protest movement against police brutality and racism, support for the Black Lives Matter movement increased by a 28-point margin in two weeks—almost as much as it had in the preceding two years, according to the New York Times.
Perhaps more than any other phrase since “Black Power,” “Black Lives Matter” became a singular rallying cry for the American and global racial justice movements.
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Definitely sparked a bowel movement in me.
Simple and clear in its demand for Black dignity,
I think the first step towards “black dignity” would be to make every black look at himself in a mirror.
Then ask themself these questions:
1. Do I look like a clown?
2. Do I look like a “gangsta”?
3. Do I look like a dambed fool?
4. Do I look like a safety hazard?
The road to black dignity can only be chosen by the blacks. And the way things look?
They aren’t going to choose dignified behavior any time soon.
Bullshit. Justice my ass.
It is the rallying cry for the low IQ, low impulse control, feral animals. Those who want to dominate whitey, treat whitey like shit, kill off whitey, because they have been told that some whitey long dead, treated one of their ancestors long dead poorly.
Low IQ fuckwits who ruin anything they touch because they don’t understand and don’t appreciate it, having not earned it or created it.
Look what happens when whitey skedaddles. Nations standard of living, respect for human rights, farming, industry, economy, all improve drastically…… wait, I could be wrong about that.
Screwnteenth
The BLM Movement ranks right down there with bowel movement, a load of shit propagandized into something pushed as relevant !
It’s designed to give the 80% of inferior blacks a continuous victim status !
This while the 20% of blacks actually live lives of prosperity and dignity sadly shadowed by the 80% of ignorant intellectually inferior blacks patronized by the leftist agenda . As they are played as to stupid to learn and succeed in modern society and their basic violent animal instincts left un subdued leads to criminal behavior. This adds one more tool for leftist to keep blacks on the Democratic Party plantations !
When you give a black student a diploma with a 1.6 GPA that’s about as racist as you can get !
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“I am not oppressed,” says black American:
No it didn’t,most folks I know didn’t support it and saw it for the political bs that it was…..where is it now???steeped in greed and criminality!
Wholly supported by THE LEFT,media and TPTB …..municipalities allowed a certain segment of the population to DEFACE PUBLIC PROPERTY…..hardly grass roots!!!
Get bent!…
Bowel Movements Matter.
Black lives? They don’t seem to matter to themselves.