Culture+Group+Summaries

Black Lives Matter Summary -

The melting pot of cultures that makeup America’s “culture” all handle, celebrate and articulate death in various different ways. Some, more accepted than others, and these accepted kinds become the ‘norm’ of America. Anything outside of that either is classified as weird/odd, ethnic or is attacked in attempt to denounce it’s significance. An example of that is Black Lives Matter, A movement that began after the sensationalization of the deaths of young black men at the hands of the police. To which is nullified by the contrasting movement All Lives Matter. The 1st source serves as explanation of the movement, and attempts to explain the why the negative connotation of it exists and tries to debunk it.It didn’t emphasize the deaths of black men but the stereotypes but on black men and the black community as a whole. The 2nd source begins by addressing different purposes for BLM, then discusses the death of Trayvon martin’s death being the catalyst of the movement inception. Further into the source the deaths of other black woman and men and children various situations of death are explained. At the end it explain how hiphop has been impacted by unjust policing. The 3rd source compares the movement now to the civil rights movements of the 50s and 60s. Emphasis is placed on the tragic deaths that caused the movements to begin, along with how “organic” the original one was to the digital movement we are currently in. Along with a paragraph about one how hiphop artists have influenced the popularity of the movement. And the 4th and final source explains the inception of the movement. As well as the reason of All Matter. The source goes on to talk about how All lives matter is America’s reminder of its own ignorance to its oppression and murders of its own and how terrible that is.