Is Black Lives Matter Movement Anti-White?

Is Black Lives Matter movement anti-white?

“This is Not a Moment, but a Movement.”-Alicia Garza. On February 26, 2012, seventeen year old Trayvon Martin was brutally murdered by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, in Stanford, Florida. Shortly after George Zimmerman was acquitted for his crime, which caused an up roar not only with African Americans but everyone across the globe. This situation sparked what we now call “Black Lives Matter Movement”. Black Lives Matter is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, which campaigns against violence toward black people. Its founders included Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors. They began their journey on social media by using the hashtag “#BlackLivesMatter” to get the attention of others and encourage them to discuss certain topics while using the hashtag. Eventually they began protesting on the

He stated “I think everybody understands all lives matter, I think the reason that the organizers used the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ was not because they were suggesting nobody else’s lives matter. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that’s happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities” (Darlene Superville 1). He defended the movement saying that the protest gave a voice to a problem that was only present in the African American Communities. Although the movement has many supporters, there are some people with opposing views. Previous owner of Arkansas, Governor Mike Huckabee said that if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr were still alive today, he would have been appalled that the movement only focused on African Americans, and that in his eyes, all lives should matter. Many others felt like the phrase “Black Lives Matter” was a hateful anti-white expression that had no right to start a civil right