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Ferguson (Black Lives Matter and the meaning of the Movement (BLM retains…

- - - - "What you want, a house or a car
        40 acres and a mule, a piano a guitar"
        
        Songs like Alright and Glory speak to the state of Black citizenship in contemporary America. Alright takes the route of saying that as long as you life as yourself, and focus on your success, you'll be alright. African Americans have come a long way and progress will keep being made as long as people care. Glory on the other hand, uses a gospel inspired tone as something more oriented around uplift, rather than soothing and reassuring. Glory speaks on the pride of being Black, and the perspective it brings
        
        Meanwhile songs like Freedom and Talmbout are significantly more aggressive in approach. They are loud and bombastic, they push themselves into your face and show that they refuse to back down. A message of being here to stay and not being scared about the consequences
    - - "The movement is a rhythm to us
        Freedom is like religion to us"
  - - - In Rankine's citizen we see a massive array of topics covered: tragedies and losses of life of Black Americans, instances of microaggressions performed against her and people she knows, speaking on athlete Serena Williams and instances of race-prompted judgement oh her physical body, and her emotional outbursts. It all contributes to a central question regarding the concept of being African American, and if it being Black and being a "Citizen" are two defining tags that one can hold at the same time. Do they inherently conflict with one another?
- - - - Present in the structure of BLM and its ideals, are a few similar in sentiment to the Black Panther Party, a prominent and divisive political organization that sought to give Black Americans the rights they deserve. Some similarities lie in the acknowledgement and call to end police brutality, call to end mass incarceration, and true equality and equity for Black Americans. The primary differences in its lack of inclusivity regarding women and people of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as its system being far more demand-oriented rather than ideal oriented.
  - - - Black Lives Matter is aware of the power of a centralized figure, but also aware of the inherent flaws with the model. Having a figurehead places an idolization on the person in charge, while simultaneously narrowing the scope for what members of an incredibly diverse group would look like. Leaders like MLK and Malcolm X were incredibly thought provoking an intelligent, but sets a damaging religion-oriented, cis and hetero normative perspective, that fails to acknowledge the efforts of women and LGBTQA+ members.