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And the jury found the murderers to be not guilty.
Joyce Landers compares the murder of Emmett Till to the murders of “Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Sandra Bland” because they “galvanized young people to support the Black Lives Matter movement.”
The biggest thing I learned from this is that despite the idea that racism has lessened in modern times, things are in many ways just as bad as they were in the 60s.
People are still getting away with murdering innocent African Americans, and as Joyce Landers notes, the police are still using tear gas and other types of force against peaceful protesters.
She tells the story of when she and other members of the SNCC marched to protest the arrest of African American students who held “a sit-in at a white public library” but she says they “were met with a roadblock, where police attacked us with tear gas and chased us with a dog”
To be clear, the SNCC is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, but I didn’t have enough characters to say that in the tweet before.
By making all these comparisons, this article showed me how things have continued to be the same for African Americans for a long time, despite people saying that racism has gotten less bad.
This thread today has been pretty depressing, but I truly believe that this Black Lives Matter movement is the movement that is going to make huge positive changes in the U.S. that put an end to the racism that is built into society.
I’m far from an authority on the subject of civil rights movements, but I believe that our generation is the one that can make the world a truly equal place.
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter
