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Blue Lives Matter
The blue lives matter founded in 2014 is a movement that aims at protecting the police officers of the United States from the hazards which they might face. This is especially with the ever-increasing issues between the police officers and the black lives matter movement whereby this movement blames the police officers for hate towards the black population. Therefore this e lives matter movement is a countering force and action against the black lives matter movement and especially for the police officers in an aim to protect them. Hence this paper discusses the place of the blue lives matter movement within American society concerning black lives matter.
Even though it is true that some people within the black lives matter movement go overboard and even kill police officers the discrimination against black people remains unacceptable in the United States. This movement which came up is seen most of the time by the black population as a way of making them silent and making them unable to give out their views about society and how they should be treated since most of the time they are disrespected. Blue lives matter movement is a media company focused solely on making sure that the general public gets to realize and know how important the role of the police officers is in the lives of Americans. Therefore in as much as it is a countering force against black lives matter, it still has relevance and it promotes what is good for the society which is generally a good view of the police officers. However, this does not justify the fact that the movement is racists and through its efforts to make the police officers viewed positively does not outdo the fact that some police officers maliciously hate the blacks and victimize them on so many occasions (Blue Lives Matter).
Therefore the blue lives matter movement is a racist organization which who’s main focus does not accompany the pains and the hurt of the blacks who are mistreated and hurt by the police officers. The movement does not recognize most of the acts of its members as illegal and racist but as a form of self-defense and therefore this makes the movement even more unappealing to the public. Even though it is wrong to target police officers this movement goes ahead to promote what the police officers and even in some states like in Louisiana it is a law that a person should not target police officers as this is referred to as hate crime. Hate crimes can be punished to a great extent. Therefore blue lives matter is indeed a racist response towards the black lives matter movement (What Is Blue Lives Matter and Why Do Some People Consider It Racist?”)
What the movement advocates for is a society whereby t is not even possible for a person to question some things done by the police. This not only paralyzes the police force but also paralyzes the justice system and makes it very difficult for a person to obtain justice. According to the blue lives movement, a person refusing to be arrested for a crime and should be punished. However, it does not consider that a person has constitutional rights to be protected and these are some like a person being told the reason they are being arrested. Therefore this movement tries to make people obey the police blindly and therefore this can be seen as one of the ways through which the police can make the black people suffer since in obedience the police officers will be able to anything they want with them (Vaughn-Hall).
In conclusion therefore the blue lives matter movement is an undesirable force within the American society since its efforts even though hidden under the desire for them to protect the police officers has a hidden agenda of making sure that the blacks live matter movement is ended and that they can do whatever they want with the blacks whom they come across.
Works cited
Vaughn-Hall, Jasmine. “From a Cop’s Daughter: Saying ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Doesn’t Honor Police. It Divides All of Us.” York Daily Record, 21 Sept. 2020, www.ydr.com/story/news/2020/09/21/blue-lives-matter-defensive-response-black-lives-matter/5802555002/.
161385360554578. “What Is Blue Lives Matter and Why Do Some People Consider It Racist?” The US Sun, 19 Aug. 2020, www.the-sun.com/news/992088/blue-lives-matter-racist-flag-blm-protests/.“About Us.” Blue Lives Matter, 19 May 2016, archive.bluelivesmatter.blue/organization/.
