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Ferguson (Military Reaction (dropped image link (Kristof) ((“Did you win?…

- - - - “Did you win? he asks.
      - It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson.”
      - ― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
  - - - “They wanted to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” (Nezam)
- - - - member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
        
        (#BlackLivesMatter) was a social media hashtag that started the whole movement, created by Alicia Garza
      - has become a rally cry of a new freedom struggle against the system for change to the African-American abused by inequality (Cooper)
        
        The BLM movement has a clear list of demands on its agenda:
        
        swift and transparent legal investigation of all police shootings of black people
        
        official governmental tracking of the number of citizens killed by police
        
        dis-aggregated by race
        
        demilitarization of local police forces
        
        community accountability mechanisms for rogue police officers (BLM)
        
        Some new changes include the Campaign Zero project, meaning new body cameras on every, single police officer. (Paradigm Shift)
        
        Blue Lives Matter
        
        Many people believe this new Pro-Black, Anti-Police mentality of this movement is extremely dangerous to the policemen and women of our country, thus creating a new slogan
        
        A very unsettling amount of high-level Ferguson protests leaders have died after the riots are finished.
        
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        BLM Leaders claim that the brutalization and abuse of the state law enforcement holds an extreme amount of tension between groups and that will not be detered from fighting to protect black lives (Taylor)
        
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        naturally many American are threatened by this group wanting to shake up the current society, with many questions, rumors, and a negative connotation surrounding them
        
        The movement is full of leaders, rather than without a core group. Some of these people include:
        
        Black Youth Project 100
        
        The Dream Defenders
        
        The Organization for Black Struggle
        
        Hands Up United
        
        Millennial Activists United
        
        and a Black Lives Matter national movement network (BLM About US/What We Believe)
- - - - when the St. Louis County prosecutor announced that the jury declared not to indict Mr. Wilson, a whole new wave of protests began in the area
        
        "One ever feels his twoness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." - W.E.B. Du Bois (Deloria Olson)
        
        "A member of my family said to me when we learned of the bombing of the four little girls in the Birmingham Sunday school,
        “Well, they don’t need us for work no more. Where are they building the gas ovens?” Many Negroes feel this; there is no way not to feel it."
        (Baldwin)
        
        Now, 52 years later, six black women and three black men have been shot to death while at a Bible-study meeting at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. They were killed by a homegrown terrorist, self-identifed as a white supremacist. (Rankine/Mourning)
        
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        "While living with the conditions of slavery and then, later, segregation, many Negroes lost faith in themselves. Many came to feel that perhaps they were less than human or inferior. This, it seems to me, is the greatest tragedy of segregation, not merely what it does to the individual physically, but what it does to one psychologically. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority, while leaving the segregated with a false sense of inferiority." -Martin Luther King Jr.
      - was the young white police officer who killed Mr. Brown
  - - - There was a small altercation between Brown and Wilson over walking in the street and the officer decided, these two black men needed to be "checked." Then he realized Brown fit the description of a shoplifting robbery at a local store and stopped him, where events quickly escalated. (Ransby)
- - - - "We was treated like we wasn't his parents, you know? Thats what I didn't understand. They sicced dogs on us. They wouldn't let us identify his body. They pulled guns on us." -Mike Brown Sr.
        
        The promise of U.S. citizenship has always been practiced unevenly, which is clearly against the democratic ideals this country was founded upon. (Berlant)
        
        "Hope is not feel-goodism built on the belief in unicorns. Martin Luther King had hope, but it was rooted in years of study and struggle, not in looking the other way. Hope is not magical. Hope is earned." (Coates)
      - an attitude is not a suicide note
        written on walls around the streets. (Komenyakaa)
        
        once, a white girl
        
        was kidnapped & that's the Trojan war.
        
        later, up the block, Troy got shot
        
        & that was Tuesday. are we not worthy
        
        of a city of ash? of 1000 ships
        
        launched because we are missed? (Smith)
        
        "And we hate the popo, when they kill us dead in the street for sure." -Kendrick Lamar (Shonekan)
      - One of the monitors at the Mars base drone station
        
        Is carefully considering all your moves for terror output.
        
        But not to worry. Forget about about about it.
        (Seidel)