BLM; Black or Blue?

Look around you, do you know someone from a minority group being denied their rights? Sexism, prejudice based on religion, colorist — human beings are judged and opportunities are withheld based on unfair criteria in schools, workplaces, and even in our homes. Dehumanizing others based on an arbitrary factor isn’t new. I believe many of us are guilty of doing it, some consciously and some unknowingly. Even if someone isn’t directly partaking in discriminatory behavior, staying neutral still makes one guilty.

“But all our phrasing — race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy — serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.” — — — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

The Black Lives Matter movement was started as a synchronized political movement to withstand police barbarity against the colored people whereas The Blue Lives Matter movement made an appearance as a reply or response to this movement and seek to encourage public unanimity behind law enforcement or the police community.