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Ferguson
Oppression
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In our society, members of the black community have been oppressed for hundreds of years. There are many groups that have aimed to bring this issue to light, in their fight for equality.
White Supremacy
The racist belief that white people are superior to people of other races (especially black people) and should therefore dominate society
W.E.B. Du Bois
Fought against white supremacy and attacked the idea that black skin corresponds to a lower socially developed human form
Critiqued racist science by proclaiming that humanistic theories, such as history, law and religion have played a larger role than scientific theories in the differences among races
America
Citizenship
"The promise of U.S. citizenship to deliver sovereignety to all of its citizens has always been practiced unevenly" (Raciere 1998).
Society's ruling blocks have historically manipulated the conditions of legal and social belonging to assert their economic, sexual and racial power over minority groups.
"The status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation." Regardless of race, religion, color or sexual orientation
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Black Lives Matter
Common Misconceptions
1.The movement doesn't care about black-on-black crime.
2.It's a leaderless movement.
3.The movement has no agenda
4.It's a one-issue movement.
5.The movement has no respect for elders.
6.The black church has no role to play.
7.The movement does not care about queer or trans lives.
8.The movement hates white people
9.The movement hates police officers
10.The movement's primary goal should be the vote
11.There's not actually a movement at all
Beliefs
"The Black Lives Matter Movement is a "member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes."
They affirm the lives of all black Americans, of all social, physical and sexual identity backgrounds
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Police Brutality
Vicitms
Frank Stafford
On April 17, 1964, in Harlem, NYC, Frank Stafford, a 31 year-old salesman with 2 kids was handcuffed and brutally beaten by the police before even being charged with a crime. He was beaten so badly around one eye that he was hospitalized and the eye was removed. He was then charged with 3 crimes he did not commit.
Eric Garner
In Staten Island NY, on July 17, 2014, Garner refused to be handcuffed after being accused of illegally selling loose cigarettes. He died after saying he couldn’t breathe 11 times as officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a choke-hold and forced him to the pavement. Garner's final words "I can't breathe" sparked a nationwide rallying cry to demand more police accountability in the deaths of unarmed black men.
Five years after the death of Michael Brown, police have killed over 4,000 people. 1,000 of them were black.
"In a stupor of rage and disbelief, with hopes shattered like broken glass, the experiences of police abuse and intimidation united young black people around the country."(Taylor)
“The police are not merely a ‘spark’ factor. To some Negroes police have come to symbolize white power, white racism and white repression. And the fact is that many police do reflect and express these white attitudes." (Serwer)
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