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  1. my name is Drew Williams and I chose to do
  2. my topic Black Lives Matter.
  3. So I really just want to talk about the stereotypes
  4. surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement.
  5. So the main points that we're going to talk about
  6. today is what is the Black Lives Matter movement?
  7. Does the Black Lives Matter movement encourage violence?
  8. Does BLM claim all police are racist?
  9. And lastly, is the BLM movement the same as the
  10. civil rights movement?
  11. So blm was started by three women by the name
  12. of Alicia Garza, Patrice Cullors and Opal Tom Petty.
  13. This is back in 2013 following the acquittal of Trayvon
  14. martin's murder George Zimmerman.
  15. This movement really began to take off after the hashtag
  16. Black Lives Matter was created.
  17. It was very easy for people to access information about
  18. the movement as well as continue to push forward and
  19. share this movement with others.
  20. Yeah, does the Black Lives Matter movement encourage violence.
  21. So opposers to the Black Lives Matter movement usually write
  22. it off as people were just causing issues they tied
  23. to looting and rights.
  24. But this isn't something that is taught in the movement,
  25. that Chicago chapter leader actually came out saying that they
  26. do not stand behind anything regarding any type of violence.
  27. Crime, anything illegal.
  28. And it's kind of hard to see that when the
  29. social media and news outlets are very biased.
  30. Uh, so you're most likely just going to see diluting
  31. and things of that sort.
  32. Also, Former President donald trump came out on twitter saying
  33. that Black Lives Matter is a hate symbol and with
  34. the amount of supporters that he has, you can find
  35. it very easy to give a Black Lives Matter movement
  36. bad rap.
  37. Does BLM claim all police are racist?
  38. The short answer for this is no.
  39. The Black Lives Matter movement is in preaching that all
  40. officers are racist there, simply looking at law enforcement as
  41. a whole and pointing out the corrupt system that has
  42. plagued the black community for ages.
  43. This kind of came with generalizing that By saying one
  44. cop is bad.
  45. Uh, some people tend to say, oh well, all cops
  46. are bad and we shouldn't have cops and things of
  47. this sort, but this also isn't something that black Lives
  48. Matter is teaching is the BLM movement the same as
  49. the civil rights movement.
  50. So these two movements are very similar uh, surrounding African
  51. americans, but one is a social movement that others activist
  52. movement. So, black Lives Matter is actually an activist movement
  53. and it is a campaign against violence towards african americans.
  54. Okay. And the civil rights movement, their goal was to
  55. end racial segregation and discrimination as well as equal rights.
  56. Something that they did similar was boycotts.
  57. That was a really good form of making a statement
  58. and gaining more support from surrounding communities.
  59. One major difference between these two movements is technology back
  60. then, the technology wasn't just instagram Snapchat, twitter things where
  61. you could literally post anything in hashtag it.
  62. So that's actually how black lives matter blew up and
  63. really gain traction was through hashtags.
  64. So this is on a completely a different scale.
  65. In closing, I chose this because I think it's very
  66. important that we do our own research, uh, using reliable
  67. sources so that we're able to see for ourselves and
  68. form our own opinion on what these type of movements
  69. are, rather than looking at social media or just biased
  70. news, television channels.
  71. That being said, thank you.