English Research Paper

Black Lives Matter-Outline

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Institution

Black Lives Matter

Introduction

Black lives matter movement constitutes an activist movement that is born of the African-American community. The community advocates for a stop to violence and the racism projected on the African people. The group irresistibly pushes for a stop in police brutality through the killing of the black people and discriminating against the blacks. The movement employs many strategies of approaches in fighting to bring their powerful message of liberation to the light. They point their fingers at racial injustice in the United States criminal justice system, the brutality of the police and racial profiling (Parks, 2018). This outline therefore focuses on bringing out an apt description of the various methods used to gain public attention by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Thesis Statement

The “Black Lives Matter” movement employs several techniques in the fight for their concern of ‘blacks’ discrimination which involves media, activism, politics and campaigns among others. These methods portray how influence on people’s perception can be created through control of information.

Arguments

i. Use of media.

ii. Through activists intervention.

iii. Direct action method.

iv. Use of campaigns and demonstrations.

v. Engaging politics.

The use of the media is broadly illustrated in the fight for their rights by the African-Americans in agitating for a fair handle for them. The movement utilized the use of a hash-tag twitter page to create an immediate connect with a wide mass of people in the US and even gain global attention. A report shows that in 2016 the “Black lives matter” phrase on Twitter had been tweeted over for more than 30 million times. This is just evidence of the amount of stir the slogan created all over the globe (Khan-Cullors, Bandele & Davis, 2018). The direct impact is also explained by the emergence of the black university student era. Many sources have approved the kind of attention created by the media. This brings out how media is really an influence on the perception of the people.

Employing the use of activism is also one important technique that proved extremely instrumental in the fight for recognition by the African-American during the Black Lives Matter movement. Several activists came out in support of the campaigns. This activist included Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi who also played a mammoth role in the development of the slogan. They were the very instrumental personalities who pushed for the recognition through media and also mobilized people for regular protests. Eventually, the push from the activists pays when the issue comes out in the concern of the entire globe (Films Media Group & TED, 2017). This proves activism an elementary tool in influencing people’s perspective.

The direct action method is also an elementary method that was vastly used in the protest for African rights in the US. The movement held demonstrations all over and created discomfort among the masses enough that addressing the issue was rendered the only option. The protesters also staged a die-in and engaged one in the 2015 Twin Cities Marathon. In the process of all these they chanted slogans in a way to emphasize their concerns. Eventually they were able to capture the attention of the government as well as that of the people (Lowery, 2017). This therefore rendered the direct action method valid as far as the fight for the influence of perception is concerned.

The use of campaigns and demonstrations proved extremely viable. The members of the movement engaged in demonstrations in towns and on the streets of cities. Amidst these demonstrations were loud chants of the phrase “Black Lives Matter”. This took a toll on the media stations on televisions and even rendered progress impossible without attending to their concerns. Through these therefore the whole world to concern on the happenings in the US hence influencing great support from within as well as beyond the US boundaries.

There also surfaced the application of politics in the agitation of the African-American rights. There emerged several politicians who raised concern over the issue of protection of African rights .among these politicians was Scott Walker who advocated for reforms in the police training system and proper law enforcement system. Marco Rubio also sympathized with the blacks and played a role in portraying his sympathy publicly apart from dispensing his dislike for inequality experienced (Black, 2011). These politicians also contribution to drawing concern for this matter. This portrayed politics a suitable procedure for creating influence on people’s perception.

Conclusion

In conclusion, there are many different methods that can be brought together to enhance the influence of people’s perception through control of information as illustrated in how the African-Americans push for their concerns to be attended to. Through such methods as campaigns, media, politics and activism among others, they are able to win the attention of the entire globe.

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Black, S. V. (2011). Live your life like it matters. Flower Mound, Tex: Walk the Talk.

Films Media Group, & TED (Organization). (2017). Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi: An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter.

Khan-Cullors, P., Bandele, A., & Davis, A. Y. (2018). When they call you a terrorist: A Black Lives Matter memoir. New York: St. Martin's Press

Lowery, W. (2017). They can't kill us all: The story of black lives matter. London, England: Penguin Books.

Parks, P. J. (2018). The Black Lives Matter movement. San Diego, CA: Reference Point Press