Understanding the Impact of Black Lives Matter Movement

This essay discusses the emergence, approaches, benefits, and drawbacks of the Black Lives Matter movement in bringing social change.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
This essay is on understanding the diverse voices which is involved in the mass
participation which results into bringing social innovation. Based upon this, a recent case of
social movement is being discussed involving its emergence, reason for the same along with the
approaches being adopted and it also covers the benefits and drawbacks of the same.
MAIN BODY
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) emerged after the police killing of Breonna Taylor and
George Floyd. This step has galvanized the anti-racism all across the US, Canada and other
places. There were also earlier incidence of the unfair treatment of the black people. As a result
of all these, the angry people have made use of the creative approach in order to confront the
systemic racism. The lawmakers pledged to divest from the police and along with this, the school
districts have cut all the ties with the law enforcement (Royal and Hill, 2018). The organizing of
the BLM movement and the protest tactics have played an important role in the change in the
public discourse. This movement is very well aware of the media bias and the limits of the
politics and thus, they have challenged this status quo. People refuse to placate the public and the
policymakers with good nature and politeness and protesters unflinchingly starring into the eyes
of the police. This approach is mainly used for confronting the existing racial inequities.
The benefits of this movement has resulted into increase in the awareness among the
people in respect to the racial discrimination being faced by the black people. This movement
has been successful in its approached of disrupting the status quo (Haynes and et.al., 2019). The
tactics like the mass protects and human face the racist monument works in line with the
strategies in order to demand the legislative change and reparations. Over the period, these
approaches would convert into the powerful forces that will push back against the white people
in the power (Clayton, 2018). But on the other side, these tactics has affected the regulatory
system of the nations along with this, it has disobeyed the law and the police officials leading to
disruption in the system.
By getting involved in the movement would have added another voice for bringing up the
social changes. Through my participation, the protestors would get more motivated as adding
one more hand creates more support in bringing the right with a more innovative approaches for
meeting the demand and doing good for the society and community.

CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that the BLM movement has resulted into bringing changes in the
perspectives of the white people. From this essay, it can be drawn that the protesters have
implemented various and diverse approach for drawing the attention of the government. The
emergence of this issue has raised awareness among the people. There were certain pros and
cons of the movement and approached being used protesters which depicts their influence over
the working of the political activities. But on an overall basis, this has resulted into bringing of
the social change.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Clayton, D. M., 2018. Black lives matter and the civil rights movement: A comparative analysis
of two social movements in the United States. Journal of Black Studies. 49(5). pp.448-
480.
Haynes, C. and et.al., 2019. Black Deprivation, Black Resistance, and Black Liberation: the
influence of# BlackLivesMatter (BLM) on higher education. International Journal of
Qualitative Studies in Education. 32(9). pp.1067-1071.
Royal, C. and Hill, M. L., 2018. Fight the power: Making# BlackLivesMatter in urban
education: Introduction to the special issue. Urban Education. 53(2). pp.143-144.