Black Lives Matter

Precious babi      

Professor Joe palencia

English 101-045

11/05/15

Investigate Essay  

                                        Black lives matter.

So far in the year two thousand and fifteen, seven hundred and seventy-sixty innocent African Americans were killed by correctional officers and one hundred and sixty-one of those poor victims were completely unarmed at the time of their death. This data was provided by The Guardian by a project called the count that continues to update the killings by people appointed by the government to insure are safety and protection. Base on “the count,” an average of three people per day have been killed this year by police officers. Which bring me to my main point:  #BlacklivesMatter. #BlackLivesMatter is a movement that started in the year two thousand and twelve after the murder of seventeen year old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, who was not charged or held responsible for committing this criminal act. The founder of this movement is Alice Garza and her two friends Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. #BlackLivesMatter is all about calling attention, exposing and bring to light all of the violence committed by people in authority. To respond and question the virulent anti-black racism that diffuse our society.

  Black Live Matters goes beyond the extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes. This movement is a way to bring the black community together as one. They want people to understand that

“black poverty and genocide is state violence, that there are 2.8 million black people locked in cages in the country for stat violence, that black women are bearing the burden of the relentless assault of their children for state violence , that Black queer and trans folks bear a unique burden from a hetero-patriarchal society that disposes of us like garbage and simultaneously fetishizes us and profits off of us, and that is state violence, How Black girls are used as negotiating chips during times of conflict and war, How Black folks living with disabilities and different abilities bear the burden of state sponsored Darwinian experiments that attempt to squeeze us into boxes of normality defined by white supremacy, and that is state violence.” (Black Lives matter)

Black Lives Matters is trying to have a world where black people (African Americans) are not just consistently and deliberately that focus on fate usually died.

The black community have too much of an easy access to guns. Kayla death wasn’t just an act of jealousy but it was an act committed by someone, who probably knew her.

According to Cornell William Brooks “African American children and teens accounted for 45 percent of all child and teen gun deaths in 2008 and 2009 but were only 15 percent of the total child population.  Black males ages 15-19 were eight times as likely as White males of the same age and two-and-a-half times as likely as their Hispanic peers to be killed in a gun related homicides in 2009.  Current estimates are that there are 270 million guns held by civilians in the United States today.  That means there are almost 90 firearms for every 100 men, women and children in the U.S. today.” Which results to a lot of killings and gangs violence. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).