Black Lives Matter

Question: Discuss about theBlack Lives Matter. Answer: Introduction Black lives matter is one of the major civil rights movement in the United States at the moment. The campaign started to raise the consciousness of injustice that was being inflicted upon African Americans by the authorities. The movement was founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi who started the movement as a hashtag in the social media (Anon, 2017). It later gains much followership that it became a real civil movement. The movement gained national recognition after it moved from social media to the streets in the protest of two young black men who were shot by the police without any proper and legal reason (Eichelberge, Doll, Ekpo, and Zerden, 2016). This social-political movement aims at empowering African Americans that they are entailed to safety regardless of their skin color. Identifying the Problems/Issues the Campaign Aims to Address The black lives matter movement was as a result of a white policeman who killed an unarmed teenage in Missouri. This was an open manifestation of how the black community has been discriminated on the basis of being criminals and that they endanger lives of any person epically the white. The plan aims to address the issue of broken window policing which was formulated by the security authorities (Filho, Beltrn-Snchez, and Kawachi, 2014). These policies suggest that minor crimes should be dealt with firmly in the attempt to put a halt to major crimes. This implies that issue of minor violence such as street fighting, using of hard illegal drugs and breaking of minor laws such as traffic will attract extremely strict rules in the court of law. This policy evidently aims at those low-income earners who are majorly the black community. The movement aims at achieving the use of community oversight rather than police deciding the consequences that unethical police officers face (Garca, and Sharif, 2015). It is believed that will help justice be realized for the misconduct of the police officers. Black lives matter movement calls for more training of the police officers so as to enable them not be racial biased. The movement aims to achieve the status of independently investigating and prosecuting misconduct of police officers (Bradford, 2016). The movement believes that they are not biased and that there will be no window of the accused police to bribe of be favored by the disciplinary committee of the police. Defining the Campaign Goals/Objectives It is important to understand that this campaign dubbed as black lives matter has gained an international outlook where all people of color especially the black in the United States or Europe have embraced. One of the goals of this movement is to ensure that the black liberation is realized (Goldberg, 2015). At present, institutionalized racism has taken over the direct racism that was there before. This group wants to achieve the goals at equipping all black people of the institutionalized racism that exist. Black lives matter group focuses on those who are marginalized within the black liberation movement so as to avoid the state-sanctioned discrimination against the black people. This will largely prevent the wrongful incarnation of many black men and women. It is evident that this movement mission is to forceful remove racial biases from the police authorities (Nelson, 2016). Changing the way people see things and behave require a significant amount of time. It is for this reason , the movement has a mission of educating the black community especially the young men on how to behave around the police. The most important educative ideas that the black lives matter movement has been able to instill to black people, is to educate them on the right way to behave (Williams, 2017). This means that the group ensures that to avoid the black community gaining the eye of the police officers, they should ensure that they engage with income generating activities that are not in conflict with the law. How did the Campaign Establish Credibility as an Activist? Activists are the ones who reaped big from the cause of action of black lives matter movement. It is very pleasing for an individual activist to realize that something which started as a mere hashtag has attracted international attention. The credibility of an activist will be able to be established because of the massive support that such a movement receives. This is because this campaign is focusing on the issues that affect many of the black people and that a lot of the issue has been spearhead by someone so as to publicize it in the view of achieving a solution. For an activist who has taken the responsibility to save the black community from police brutality and discrimination and gets a huge support, the credibility of such an activist can be deemed as that which is beyond reproach. Developing the Strategy One of the strategies of black lives matter is based on communication. This means that communication is one way that helps this movement to advance in its ideas. This is because every action of the movement needs to be manifested for the public to see. This will keep the movement alive as people will realize that their problems are being handled and that they should continue participating in any call of action. Another strategy is to ensure that people who are directly affected by police brutality are mobilized, and they present their personal account of the problem so as to depict an inclusive movement which clearly understands the problem that they are trying to address (Sowell, T. 2016). Besides, the critical conversation by the people who are mobilized will in turn be taken to the highest political office such as the white house for a better solution. However, some of the strategies that can be applied to this campaigned can fail. It is imperative that a fail fast learn fast approach to be used. This is because each state and city has a unique problem which cannot be solved by the same solutions. This means that each strategy that is applied should be tailored to depict the type of every type of people who may have a different type of police brutality. The issue of discrimination black people by the police will remain a thorny issue. It is until a stronger political strategy to be used to as to avoid having institutionalized racism to be scrapped off. Consider the strategy maps below; References Eichelberger, K.Y., Doll, K., Ekpo, G.E. Zerden, M.L. 2016, "Black Lives Matter: Claiming a Space for Evidence-Based Outrage in Obstetrics and Gynecology", American Journal of Public Health, vol. 106, no. 10, pp. 1771-1772. Filho, A.D.P.C., Beltrn-Snchez, H. Kawachi, I. 2014, "Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy in Brazil: Challenges From a Multiracial Society",American Journal of Public Health,vol. 104, no. 11, pp. 2156-62. Garca, J.J. Sharif, M.Z. 2015, "Black Lives Matter: A Commentary on Racism and Public Health",American Journal of Public Health,vol. 105, no. 8, pp. E27-E30. Goldberg, J. 2015,A Matter of Black Lives, Atlantic Media, vol. 316, no. 2I, pp. 70-76,78-80. Nelson, A. 2016, "The Longue Dure of Black Lives Matter",American Journal of Public Health,vol. 106, no. 10, pp. 1734-1737. 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