Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Role of Acknowledgement In Problem Solving

So many people today take the emphasis on Blacks in many modern movements, "Black Lives Matter" included, as threatening and condescending towards everyone who is not black. When people see "Black Lives Matter", there IS an emphasis on black lives. The Black Lives Matter movement IS trying to put black lives on a pedestal. When taking this out of the context of what is really happening around us, this emphasis on black lives is seen as a notion of superiority as opposed to equality. People need to acknowledge that there is a fundamental issue in America right now that strictly pertains to blacks. The idea that all black lives matter doesn't mean that other lives don't, it's simply trying to emphasize that black lives do matter, but without a proper understanding of what is really happening in our society right now in terms of the way judicial force is dealt with the murders of unarmed blacks, this movement is nothing more than elitist propaganda.

Those who oppose the Black Lives Matter campaign view the system as such:

The assumption that we are all equal, despite current events, perverts the real issues at hand and makes any valid movement pushing against these injustices look racist and ridiculous. The way the movements perceive the system actually looks like this:

Without acknowledging that there's an issue, no argument or logic can work, as everything will be taken out of context, nothing will link, and the arguments pushing for justice will simply fall apart.

1 comment:

  1. What would it take for America to admit that it has a problem, I wonder? How many people have to die? I like to think, in my softer moments, that maybe what America is going through is just growing pains. America is only, like, 238 years old. There were slaves in the "new world" since the 1600s+ til 1865, so there was slavery for 245 years (source http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/lesson1c.html). Of course America will have problems if slavery lasted longer than the US has been a nation. But I would hate to think that it will take us another 140 years to get it together.

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