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This article is about the statements that Tucker Carlson made on his Monday's Edition of "Tucker Carlson's Tonight". He argued that Black Lives Matter Movement is a single most powerful political party in the United States. He concludes that people are "lining up to bow before Black Lives Matter". In order to come to his resolution, he uses slippery slope over the course of connection. He started off by claiming that BLM "is not a collection of marchers with signs", nor it is not a conventional political lobby. If it is not both, he claimed this movement to a be a big political political party. Tucker Carlson adds on to his claim as he thinks that since it's a big political party, politicians are not saying anything or arguing against it. Therefore, people are "bowing" towards BLM. Politicians are not arguing against it since it is an undeniable fact that there are still racial discrimination in the United States even though they have ratified their 13th and 14th amendment where all men (human being) are equal. Moreover, just by the fact that politicians are not arguing against this movement cannot mean that people are "bowing" towards BLM. Instead, people are supporting BLM because it is necessary to fix, not to control, the world full of racial discrimination. In this article, Tucker Carlson clearly used a logical fallacy through slippery slope to make his conclusion.

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Tucker Carlson opened Monday's edition of " Tucker Carlson Tonight" with a discussion of the popularity of the Black Lives Matter movement, describing it as the first political party that cannot be criticized without professional or personal consequences

" The media, in their relentlessly fawning coverage, usually describe Black Lives Matter as an activist group or protest movement," the host said. "But that's deception by understatement. Black Lives Matter is not a collection of marchers with signs. It's not a conventional political lobby like Planned Parenthood or the NRA ... It is working to remake the country and then to control it. It's a political party.

"As of tonight, Black Lives Matter may be the single most powerful party in the United States," Carlson contiued. "Nobody says that out loud but politicians understand it perfectly well. If nothing else, they understand power -- they can smell it at great distances. That is why they are lining up to bow before Black Lives Matter."
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The host pointed out that Republicans, as well as Democrats, have been bowing to the new party, with none other than Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, taking part in a protest march in recent weeks.

"Republican leaders brag about their strong conservative convictions, but mostly they just want to be on the winning team, whatever that is," Carlson said. "That is why they pause before offending China. It's why when Black Lives Matter tells them to take a knee, they do.

"It's all pretty strange when you think about it. If the leaders of Black Lives Matter are political actors, and they are, then by definition you are allowed to have any opinion you want to have about them."

"Imagine a world," the host said later, "where you are punished for questioning the behavior of the president or for insulting your local mayor. You probably can't imagine that because it's too bizarre. It is un-American but that is where we are right now. Black Lives Matter has changed the rules and here is the first new rule: No criticizing Black Lives Matter.

"You can be fired from your job if you disobey. Many Americans have been," he said.
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Those Americans include a Vermont principal who posted a status to her personal Facebook page about the importance of protecting both black lives and law enforcement. The local superintendent described the post as "outright racist." Similarly, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago cut ties with one of its scholars, a University of Chicago economics professor who claimed the movement had BLM "torpedoed itself" by backing the "hashtag [of] defund the police."

"Black Lives Matter now enjoys almost complete immunity from criticism," Carlson said. "This is unprecedented for an American political movement but Black Lives Matter is more powerful than that. It has singlehandedly revised our moral framework ..."

"Affirming the fundamental equality of all people is now considered hate speech," he added. "You can be fired for saying it. Again, many people have been. This is a dangerous moment."

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Tucker: Black Lives Matter 'enjoys almost complete immunity from criticism,'

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Tucker Carlson opened Monday's edition of " Tucker Carlson Tonight" with a discussion of the popularity of the Black Lives Matter movement, describing it as the first political party that cannot be criticized without professional or personal consequences " The media, in their relentlessly fawning coverage, usually describe Black Lives Matter as an activist group or protest movement," the host said.

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Unqualified Generalization

This article is about the comments that Tomi Lahren made over their discussion about the justification of the violence used during the protests for Black Lives Matter Movement. Tomi Lahren claimed that United States is a nation built upon the idea of violence starting back from the Boston Tea Party Incident. Thus, he concludes that violence in protest are justified. His argument is a great example of unqualified generalization because violence cannot be justified at any case. Just by the fact that someone else has been already committing violence cannot be generalized as a factor of justification of the violence that occur today. In this discussion, Tomi Lahren clearly makes a unqualified generalization of the violence that are committed today in our society through protests of Black Lives Matter Movement

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In a new episode of Fox Nation's "No Interruption," Tomi Lahren sat down with the president of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, Hawk Newsome, who argued that his organization and others like it are justified in using destruction to call attention to their grievances with American society.

"The riot is the language of the unheard," said Newsome, who compared modern-day protests to The Boston Tea Party.

The quote "language of the unheard" is from Martin Luther King Jr's "The Other America" speech, delivered in 1967 and 1968. In the speeches, King did not defend rioting but said it was the result of understandable anger.

"What if you throw a whole bunch of tea in the water and start a war?" Newsome continued at another point in the interview. "That's what this country was built on."

Lahren specifically challenged Newsome over recent anti-police protests in the New York area and, most notably, a Jan. 31 demonstration involving reportedly thousands of protesters who flooded transportation stations and hubs around New York City.

The protests were reportedly organized by a collection of 30 grassroots groups called "Decolonize This Place."

Protesters carried signs with slogans like "F--- the Police" and "No cops! No fares!" NYPD Chief Terence Monahan said in a tweet that some individuals even attempted to "physically assault" police officers.

"There are a lot of black people who say 'f--- the police,'" said Newsome. "But the majority of the people out there who are saying 'f--- the police', in these particular events, are white people."

"You have to really start to ask why people say, 'f--- the police,'" he continued. "You really have to take away this fetish or the way that we fantasize policing and really look at it for what it really is."

"From day one, black people's interactions with the police had been negative," argued Newsome, who says that the "institution of policing" is racist.

"They started out with slave patrols," he said, pointing to the federal Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850, which allowed for the capture and return of enslaved people.

"The Fugitive Slave Act, where they would take black people, stop them in the street, ask them for their papers, if they couldn't produce them they'd send them back into slavery," he said. "Sometimes they sent free people back into slavery. The interaction between black people and police in this country has never been good."

While Lahren said she disagreed with Newsome's assessment of the police, she said she wanted to focus on the tactics of the movement.

"I'm not going to disagree with what you believe in... What I'm saying is this -- when we're talking about solving problems, the methods in which I've seen groups like Black Lives Matter advance their ills or societal grievances -- when it turns into burning, looting in the streets, I don't see it being productive," said Lahren.

Newsome claimed that destructive protests are rare, but he did not condemn them.

"The white supremacists who built this country never earned anything peacefully. They did it through bullets and blood. And that's the American way."
- Hawk Newsome, Black Lives Matter of Greater NY President

"For a country that drops bombs on people, for a country that incarcerates people, for a country that enslaves people -- to criticize us for vandalism is preposterous," said Newsome.

"I want to make sure I'm getting you clearly," pressed Lahren. "It is OK to vandalize, to light things on fire and to loot businesses because the United States of America drops bombs on other countries, and because we have problems... people have grievances."

"It is OK to act in that manner? And you co-sign on to that as the chairman of Black Lives Matter. You were saying that that is OK?"
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"I think that it is a tool of white supremacy to say if you want freedom, then you get it by protesting peacefully," said Newsome.

"Why is it a tool of white supremacy?" he concluded. "Because the white supremacists who built this country never earned anything peacefully. They did it through bullets and blood. And that's the American way."
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Black Lives Matter leader justifies rioting in interview with Tomi Lahren

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In a new episode of Fox Nation's "No Interruption," Tomi Lahren sat down with the president of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, Hawk Newsome, who argued that his organizations and others like are justified in using destruction to call attention to their grievances with American society.

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This article is about the influence of Black Lives Matter in Britain. This article passes the RADQ test which consists of: reverse image search, about us section, Domain and url, and Quotes. The image in the article clearly represents one of the influences that Black Lives Matter in Bristol where a woman was silently protesting as she stood in front of the Edward Colston's statue. The domain/url indicates that this source is from a real CNN Style which is a credible source. Moreover, the website clearly as an "About Us" section that clearly explains the news report that they have with their own work motto to become a truthful and reliable source. Finally, this source includes specific quotes from Bristol City Council, City's Mayor and even a British artist Thomas J Price to show their opinions of the influence that Black Lives Matter movement had in Bristol, Britain.

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Written by Rob Picheta, CNN London

A statue of a Black Lives Matter protester in Bristol, England, secretly installed overnight on the plinth where a monument to a slave trader had previously stood, has been removed by the local authority.

British artist Marc Quinn erected a sculpture of activist Jen Reid in the early hours of Wednesday morning, weeks after protesters tore down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and sparked a debate about colonial memory that reverberated worldwide.

But the impromptu display, set up without the knowledge of Bristol's council, lasted just one day before being taken down and moved to a museum.

"This morning we removed the sculpture. It will be held at our museum for the artist to collect or donate to our collection," Bristol City Council tweeted Thursday.

The city's mayor Marvin Rees had previously said that "the future of the plinth and what is installed on it must be decided by the people of Bristol."

"This will be critical to building a city that is home to those who are elated at the statue being pulled down, those who sympathize with its removal but are dismayed at how it happened and those who feel that in its removal, they've lost a piece of the Bristol they know and therefore themselves," he added in a statement on Wednesday.

Quinn's artwork depicted Reid with her fist raised in a Black Power salute, mimicking a picture from June 7 of her atop the empty plinth where the original Colston statue once stood.

After contacting Reid, the artist produced a life-sized sculpture of the moment using black resin. In a press statement released Wednesday, he said that the sculpture "is an embodiment and amplification of Jen's ideas and experiences, and of the past, present and her hope for a better future."

The work, officially titled "A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020," was intended to be temporary. The artist confirmed that he did not receive permission from authorities to erect the statue. Should the artwork be sold, Quinn said that profits will be donated to two charities, chosen by Reid, that promote the inclusion of Black history in school curricula.

But the sculpture has caused a divide in the art world, with some suggesting that the intervention of a White, London-based artist is unhelpful to the wider Black Lives Matter movement.

British artist Thomas J Price, who has been commissioned to create a public artwork in London honoring the Windrush generation, wrote on Twitter that Quinn had created a "Votive statue to appropriation."

But author Bernardine Evaristo commended the work and suggested it be erected again elsewhere. "Now it has to find a public spot. If Bristol doesn't have the guts, I nominate Brixton," she said on Twitter.

The actions of the protesters sparked a national conversation in the UK about what should be done with statues, monuments and street names dedicated to slave traders and imperialists around the country.

That debate spread worldwide, with statues of colonialist King Leopold II being removed in Belgium and a number of relics of the Confederacy being replaced in the United States.

The original Colston monument, which was fished out of a river by authorities after being dumped there by protesters, will be placed in a museum alongside placards from the protest.

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Edward Colston's statue stood for 125 years. The Black Lives Matter statue that replaced it stood for about 25 hours

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Written by Rob Picheta, CNN London A statue of a Black Lives Matter protester in Bristol, England, secretly installed overnight on the plinth where a monument to a slave trader had previously stood, has been removed by the local authority.

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Pathos

This article is about the emphasis on the importance of the Black Lives Movement as it represents the sufferings that people had due to racial discrimination. The author uses an appeal of emotions through numerous hardships from the all around the world that dark-colored skin citizens had to endure. For example, the author included her anecdote where her brother was imprisoned for eight months for just trespassing someone's lawn. She also included a tragic story of Adama Traore, a 24-year old Black Parisian who died in police custody. By listing numerous of stories about the sufferings and the pains that many dark skin citizens experienced, the author is urging the readers to sympathize and feel empathy towards their pain and the sufferings .

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Edna Bonhomme is a writer and historian of science based in Berlin, Germany.

Women hug as people gather at the Alexander Platz in Berlin, Germany on June 6, 2020, to protest against the recent killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, US [AP/Markus Schreiber]

Wherever we live in the world, we, Black Americans, cannot escape the feeling of collective grief that has overwhelmed our community after George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

Watching the widely circulated video showing the last moments of Floyd's life, I felt the devastating pain and anger at the never-ending injustice that Black Americans face in their own country. It was not so long ago that we marched in New York over the brutal death of Eric Garner at the hands of the police - another Black man who died pleading "I can't breathe!" It was not long ago that protests were held for other Black victims of white supremacy - all clearly ignored by the system which supports and protects Black oppression.

Sitting in my small apartment in Berlin, I also felt the survivor's guilt - the guilt of knowing that I have escaped the gruesome reality of Black life in America, which was once again laid bare by the recent cascade of Black death - from the killing of Floyd to the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor , Tony McDade , Rayshard Brooks and many others whose stories have not made it to mainstream media.

And then the streets of America erupted. Hundreds of thousands braved a pandemic and sadistic police brutality to declare that Black lives matter and enough is enough. Hundreds of thousands persisted in their protest, as the US president threatened "where there is looting, there is shooting" and officials called for the army to be deployed and martial law.

They resisted, as the media tried to distort their demonstrations and politicians and pundits conspired to shift the conversation towards piecemeal reforms.

Despite the repression, slander and obfuscation, the new iteration of the Black Lives Matter protests led by Black women, men and transgender and other queer people, persevered and stayed on course.

It was inspiring to watch from afar their political acuity and tenacity and their insistence on revolution, not reform.

It was breath-taking to see their spectacular success at putting prison abolition and defunding the police on the current political agenda and drawing attention to divestment from oppressive policing to investment in communities to address housing precarity, economic inequality and health disparities.

It was galvanising to see issues of marginalisation within the Black community raised. Some 15,000 people marched in Brooklyn for the visibility of Black transgender lives and an end to violence against Black transgender people, declaring "We [transgender people] are not going to be left out."

My pain was mixed with elation and pride watching people articulate versions of freedom that I have believed in for years - a Black freedom struggle that does not leave anyone behind and that is grounded on full equality through revolutionary change, not symbolic reform.

Indeed, I so wished I was in the United States to take part in this historic moment, in this revolutionary movement. But return home for me is not an option. I am in debt exile - a consequence of the same economic oppression that leaves so many Black Americans destitute.

Apart from a student loan of $120,000, what keeps me away from the US is also the trauma of Black life. My family, too, has been affected by the American carceral state which preys on Black people.

In 2014, my brother - who suffers from schizophrenia - was incarcerated for more than eight months for trespassing on someone's lawn and in 2019, he was shot and survived a gun wound. Some of my cousins are currently imprisoned in the state of Florida, awaiting their release, while being in solitary confinement to avoid contracting COVID-19.

Similar to James Baldwin, who fled suffocating racism and spent some pivotal years living in Europe during the civil rights movement, I feel guilty about living abroad during this moment where I am afforded the space to write, breathe, and be debt-free.

But unlike Baldwin, I cannot return. After three years of setting up a home in Berlin, building a community with local activists and artists, and finding stability for the first time in my life, a return to the US would be a reckoning with the full gravity of being Black in America - it would be a return to the indebted and worried existence of physical and economic survival, and that is something I can no longer bear.

But, we, Black American emigres, did not watch idle the revolutionary momentum that the George Floyd protests triggered.

The anger, pain and despair that poured out in the streets of America were so powerful that they shook the whole world, inspiring solidarity protests in dozens of countries, which gave more ammunition to challenge police state violence and the legacies of colonialism. And we joined.

In France, Black Parisians reignited the struggle for justice for Adama Traore, a 24-year old Black Parisian who died in police custody.

In England, protesters attacked the statue of historic figures who played a leading role in British imperialism and the slave trade, starting a nationwide conversation about the whitewashing of British colonial history.

In Belgium, after mass protests forced the removal of several statues of King Leopold II, notorious for his barbaric rule of Congo; they also prompted the head of parliament to call for a truth and reconciliation commission to address colonial time crimes.

In the Netherlands, demonstrations elicited calls for the use of blackface to portray "Black Pete" in Christmas celebrations to be banned.

In Brazil, the last country in the Americas to officially abolish slavery, there have also been protests in support of Black Lives Matter. The country itself is still struggling with the anti-Black racist legacy of its colonial period and the brutal US-backed dictatorship during the Cold War period. There, too, Black people are the main victim of police brutality and systemic discrimination.

In Australia, protests have pushed to the fore public discussions about white settler colonialism and state violence against the Aboriginal people, which the white majority has long sought to suppress. In fact, the local authorities sought to ban protests in cities like Sidney, using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse.

In Germany, local protests which were held not just in Berlin, but in other large cities across the country, also sparked national conversations about racism. Many people, including white Americans I know, insist that racism is not as bad in Germany as it is in the US. But official statistics, as well as testimonies of brown and Black people, tell a different story.

These protests offered a much-needed space for me and other Black Americans to voice our pain publicly. I spent three weekends protesting with hundreds of people outside Brandenburg Gate, tens of thousands at Alexanderplatz, and several thousand in Hermannplatz, chanting, grieving, and decrying the ongoing assault on Black life in America and around the world.

Indeed, deep-rooted, debilitating, structural racism is an international problem. It is a transatlantic creation, forged and maintained by white people in both Europe and the Americas and it is heavily interlinked. White supremacy and neo-colonialism do not stop at national borders but rather form transnational systems of oppression that subjugate, exploit, and brutalise for the benefit of the white elite at the top.

I, as a Black Haitian-American, have experienced racism both at home and abroad and I see these experiences in a continuum. And I have come to believe that the anti-racism struggle may take different forms in different places, but if we want honest and concrete ways to address the violent histories that we have inherited, then we have to engage in the fight against racism globally.

The renewed momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the death of George Floyd has opened up spaces for this kind of global struggle against racialised violence, oppression and neocolonialism. And people like me, guilty survivors of racist oppression in the US, are able to find renewed meaning in our struggles.

"Once you find yourself in another civilisation," Baldwin noted, "you're forced to examine your own." And it is from this distance, as a writer and an activist that I am honing in and participating in anti-racism activism here in Europe, the birthplace of white supremacy and colonialism.

As a descendant of Africans who were enslaved and forcibly transported to the Americas, I am challenging racism on the very continent from where the enslavement and subjugation of my ancestors were organised, directed and justified. This gives me space and perspective to grapple with this complex centuries-old system of oppression from its roots all the way to its many modern-day manifestations both locally and internationally.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.

Edna Bonhomme is a writer and historian of science based in Berlin, Germany.

Bonhomme's work interrogates the archaeology of (post)colonial science, embodiment, and surveillance. A central question of her work asks: what makes people sick. As a researcher, she answers this question by exploring the spaces and modalities of care and toxicity that shape the possibility for repair. Using testimony and materiality, she creates sonic and counter-archives for the African diaspora in hopes that it can be used to construct diasporic futures. Her practices troubles how people perceive modern plagues and how they try to escape from them. Bonhomme earned her PhD in History from Princeton University in 2017. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and currently lives in Berlin, Germany. She has written for Africa is a country, Mada Masr, The Baffler, The Nation, and other publications.

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George Floyd, a survivor's guilt and a global Black Lives Matter

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Edna Bonhomme is a writer and historian of science based in Berlin, Germany. Wherever we live in the world, we, Black Americans, cannot escape the feeling of collective grief that has overwhelmed our community after George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

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This article is about the influence that Black Lives Matter had on statues of historical figures. The author uses a historical lense to analyze the influence of Black Lives Matter on the values of the historical figures. Since BLM revolves around the issues of racial equality, the author looks at certain historical figures that have failed to make a racial equality. For example, Juan de Onate, a 16th colonial governor, was revealed to enact cruel treatment towards native Americans. When people noticed this fact, citizens in New Mexico removed Juan’s statue after a blast of gunfire. Moreover, the author analyzes the racial issue of Black Lives Movement to have a controversial discussion on certain historical figures. For example, John Sutter was well known settler famous for his role in the California gold rush. Despite his support in the gold rush, he enslaved and exploited the Native Americans. The author uses the historical lense to analyze the influence of BLM on re-evaluation of the values of historical figures.

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From Virginia to New Mexico, protests over police brutality have brought hundreds of years of American history bubbling to the surface.

A crew removed the statue of Juan de Oñate from outside the Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque on Tuesday. Credit... Adria Malcolm for The New York Times

The boiling anger that exploded in the days after George Floyd gasped his final breaths is now fueling a national movement to topple perceived symbols of racism and oppression in the United States, as protests over police brutality against African-Americans expand to include demands for a more honest accounting of American history.

In Portland, Ore., demonstrators protesting police killings turned their ire to Thomas Jefferson, toppling a statue of the founding father who also enslaved more than 600 people.

In Richmond, Va., a statue of the Italian navigator and colonizer Christopher Columbus was spray-painted, set on fire and thrown into a lake.

Across the country, monuments criticized as symbols of historical oppression have been defaced and brought down at warp speed in recent days. The movement initially set its sights on Confederate symbols and examples of racism against African-Americans, but has since exploded into a broader cultural moment, forcing a reckoning over such issues as European colonization and the oppression of Native Americans.

In New Mexico, it has surfaced generations-old tensions among Indigenous, Hispanic and Anglo residents and brought 400 years of turbulent history bubbling to the surface.

"We're at this inflection point," said Keegan King, a member of Pueblo of Ácoma, which endured a massacre of 800 or more people directed by Oñate, the brutal Spanish conquistador and colonial governor. The Black Lives Matter movement, he said, had encouraged people to examine the history around them, and not all of it was merely written in books.

"These pieces of systemic racism took the form of monuments and statues and parks," Mr. King said.

The debate over how to represent the uncomfortable parts of American history has been going on for decades, but the traction for knocking down monuments seen in recent days raises new questions about whether it will result in a fundamental shift in how history is taught to new generations.

"It is a turning point insofar as there are a lot of people now who are invested in telling the story that historians have been laying down for decades," said Julian Maxwell Hayter, a historian and associate professor at the University of Richmond.

He said that statues removed from parks and street corners could be teaching points if they are placed in museums, side-by-side with documents and first-person accounts from the era.

"Let's say you put a Columbus statue in a museum and you show students the way Columbus was lionized in a history textbook and you have them read 'Devastation of the Indies' by de Las Casas," he said. "Then you have to ask, why were people invested in telling this particular version of Christopher Columbus's history?"

The calls to bring down monuments have spanned far and wide, in large cities like Philadelphia and rural places like Columbus, Miss., touching both relatively obscure historical figures and deeply revered cultural symbols.

In Raleigh, N.C., the statue of a former newspaper publisher who was also a white supremacist was removed on Tuesday. In Sacramento, a tribute to John Sutter, a settler famous for his role in the California gold rush who enslaved and exploited Native Americans, was taken down this week. And in Dallas, construction crews recently removed a statue of a Texas Ranger, long seen as a mythical figure in Texas folklore, amid concerns over historical episodes of police brutality and racism within the law enforcement agency.

The push has largely been welcomed by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement who see Confederate and other monuments as reminders of the oppressive history that created the reality they are battling today. But some of them worried that the focus on historic symbols would do little to keep attention on the more pressing issue of ending the brutal treatment of many African-Americans by the police.

"I don't know if I would say a distraction, because I think people definitely have the ability to be nuanced," saidAlisha Sonnier, a 24-year-old mental health advocate from St. Louis who is concerned that taking down statues could be an "easy appeasement."

"The statue being removed is not going to keep anyone from dying," she said. "It's not going to save a life."

Cleon Jones, a 77-year-old activist in Africatown, Ala., formed on Mobile Bay by the last known shipment of slaves to the United States from Africa, said he felt frustrated by the notion that progress toward equality could be stalled by rancor over Confederate monuments.

"We've got to move forward, not look back," he said. "As long as we are dealing with these statues, we're not moving forward."

The focus on removing statues has revealed deep civil divisions far outside the Black Lives Matter movement that are hundreds of years in the making. It has spurred a backlash among Italian-Americans who have long regarded Columbus as a point of pride, and also among some Hispanics in New Mexico, who celebrate an era when Anglos did not dominate public life.

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A statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, was toppled by protesters in Richmond, Va., last week. Credit... Parker Michels-Boyce/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

The head of a statue of Christopher Columbus was pulled off in Boston last week amid protests over the killing of George Floyd. Credit... Brian Snyder/Reuters

In Sacramento, a tribute to John Sutter, a settler famous for his role in the California gold rush who enslaved and exploited Native Americans, was taken down this week. Credit... Daniel Kim/The Sacramento Bee, via Associated Press

"We need to have a broader discussion about our history," said Christine Flowers, a 58-year-old Italian-American immigration lawyer, who was among a group that gathered to protect a statue of Columbus in Philadelphia.

But she added, "It is indefensible to try to erase that history by pulling down something that is very dear and very symbolic for the culture of Italian-Americans in Philadelphia."

In Columbus, Miss., a largely African-American town, county officials voted on Monday to keep a towering monument to Confederate soldiers - "our heroes," it calls them - on the courthouse lawn despite mounting calls for its removal.

"It's a good time to learn some history," said Trip Hairston, a white county supervisor who opposed removing the monument. "I don't agree with all that history, of course, but it is what it is - it's history."

It was an argument that left many of those pushing to remove the statue perplexed. "It's commemorating and celebrating a lost battle - I don't understand," said David Horton, 28, a lifelong resident of Columbus who first fought against a Confederate monument as a 7th grader at Robert E. Lee Middle School.

"These are things I have to endure all my life as a young African-American man living in Mississippi," he said. "It's always made me feel inferior, it's always made me feel like I shouldn't hold my head up."

Symbols of the Confederacy and its legacy of slavery have long been at the center of the reckoning over historic racism in the country.

At least 114 Confederate symbols were removed in the years after a white supremacist killed nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, according to a 2019 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The killing of Mr. Floyd in Minneapolis re-energized that movement, as demonstrators chipped away at a 52-foot Confederate obelisk in Birmingham, Ala., and toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, in Richmond, Va.

The statues debate has once again focused attention on Columbus, the voyager who emerged as a symbol of Italians' contribution to American history in the late 1800s, a time when discrimination against Italians was rampant. But many in recent days are also talking about how his arrival signaled the beginning of a violent European colonization that resulted in a cross-Atlantic slave trade and the genocide and displacement of many Indigenous peoples.

Columbus statues from Boston to Miami have been brought down or defaced by protesters. A large Columbus statue was defaced with red graffiti in Kenosha, Wis., and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York defended a towering monument to the explorer at Columbus Circle in Manhattan.

In Philadelphia, supporters went to court to block the removal of a Columbus statue after another statue, of Frank L. Rizzo, a former mayor known for discriminatory policies, was removed by the city this month in the middle of the night. "You just can't let the mob rule," said George Bochetto, a lawyer who filed the petition.

Tensions over the Oñate monument came to a boil Monday night in Albuquerque, when dozens of protesters engaged in shouting matches, some seeing the brutal Spanish governor as a symbol of repression, while others saw him as a positive symbol of a time before Anglos came to dominate the Southwest. Then a group of white militia members, on a self-appointed mission to protect the statue, showed up with guns.

In the mayhem that ensued, a man pulled out a weapon and shot one of the protesters, critically injuring him.

On Tuesday, the authorities in Bernalillo County filed a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon against the man with the gun, identified as Steven Baca, 31. Mr. Baca ran unsuccessfully for the Albuquerque City Council last year.

Protesters gathered at a monument to General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va. Credit... Eze Amos/Getty Images

In Minneapolis, where the demonstrations over Mr. Floyd's death ignited new protest movements in dozens of cities, many said they never expected them to grow into an international reckoning over racist symbols. Still, they said, it was only a matter of time before the latest police killing of a black man led to something more lasting than previous protests.

"It's kind of like a wound that has a scab," said Teron Carter, 49, standing across the street from Cup Foods, the deli near Mr. Floyd's fatal encounter with the police. "A wound that has a scab is still a wound, it's just that the scab is on top. And if you scrape that scab a certain way, it reopens the wound."

He attributed the scope of the burgeoning movement to built-up grief and to the energy of young people who simply are not willing to put up with walking by Confederate and other statues each day.

"It's not just an isolated city event," Mr. Carter said. "Now everybody saw the opportunity and said, 'If we don't get in there and talk like Minneapolis is talking, then we aren't going to be heard.'"

Reporting was contributed by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Julie Bosman, John Eligon, Thomas Fuller, Rick Rojas and Matthew Teague.

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From Virginia to New Mexico, protests over police brutality have brought hundreds of years of American history bubbling to the surface. The boiling anger that exploded in the days after George Floyd gasped his final breaths is now fueling a national movement to topple perceived symbols of racism and oppression in the United States, as protests over police brutality against African-Americans expand to include demands for a more honest accounting of American history.

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This article highlights the damages that Black Lives Matter protesters have made in Manhattan. At least two Starbucks, five banks and a Duane Reade had their windows busted causing an estimated $100,000 damage. The author quotes the words of City Council Speaker to indicate the seriousness of the damage: "They’re breaking his neighbors’ windows — how come he’s not calling for an investigation now?". In his interview, he is clearly appealing for an empathy among citizens that this riot has become a threat into our "neighbors". The author even cites a specific footage from NBC4 to indicate the armed tools that the protestors have been using around the citizen's neighborhood smashing the windows of shops. This article uses empathy to bring out the negative views towards those violent protestors regarding the Black Lives Matter Movement.

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Black Lives Matter protesters riot in Manhattan, cause $100,000 damage: NYPD

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Eight people were arrested Friday night when a group of 150 Black Lives Matter protesters smashed windows and graffitied the storefronts of Lower Manhattan chain stores and banks, police sources sa…

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This article is about the on going live protests of Black Lives Movement that is happening all around the world. The author claims that the participants are stepping up to raising their voice under oppression of police. In order to avoid conflicts with polices in the public areas, many participants are gathering at private houses, communes and even reclaimed public spaces to raise their voices. The author is framing these participants as a hero who came up with a solution raise the awareness of this racial issue as a group. Yet, the readers are missing that they are rather raising the threat towards Corona where there are no tracks of temperature nor names but those who shout without masks. The author uses the technique of framing to portray those protest participants as those who devise a solution to shout for a racial equality as a group.

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On Monday, June 1, Meka, a 22-year-old who lives in Washington, D.C., was, like tens of thousands of others across the U.S., on the streets, fighting against police brutality and systemic racism. He and thousands of D.C. residents marched across the city. Some were in front of the White House, where they were pepper-sprayed and arrested by federal police. Others, like Meka, had marched into residential neighborhoods. As curfew fell, the police used rubber bullets against the protesters, buzzed helicopters over their heads, and arrested them by the hundreds.

With curfew behind them, and still no sign of the protest breaking up, Meka noticed that police were corralling the demonstrators, pushing off 15th Street Northwest in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and onto Swann Street, a small side street lined with townhouses. About 30 minutes passed. Then, at around 10 p.m., the tear gas and pepper spray started. Police blocked off both sides of the street and began arresting people en masse. That's when Meka saw a man atop his stoop, waving people into his home.

Meka and about 70 others rushed into Rahul Dubey's house. Cops tried to pepper-spray them, even as they made their way inside. "It happened so fast," Meka says. "Rahul, nobody knew him. But he was just making sure we were okay."

Dubey, a 44-year-old who works in health-care tech, became a viral sensation: His act of generosity was picked up by hundreds of news outlets, from Washington, D.C., to the U.K., to India. But for Dubey, his actions were the least he could do.

"Opening a door is not hero shit," Dubey says. "And if it is, then we gotta step up."

For the next hour, the house was controlled chaos: Many people inside had been attacked with tear gas by the police. They helped one another by pouring milk and water into each other's eyes. When they ran out of milk, Dubey's neighbors passed their cartons over the house's backyard fence. "Everyone was coughing, crying, yelling," Meka says. "And we still weren't sure if [the police] were gonna come and get us. But then we realized we were safe."

As the night wore on, the strangers got to know each other. A few teens hung out in an upstairs bedroom, freestyling about what had just happened to them.

"You have to make joy," Allison Lane, another demonstrator who took refuge in Dubey's house, says. "That's exactly what we were doing."

The house had become an impromptu sanctuary for the protesters, but it's not the first time that organizers have repurposed a space for their own needs. Increasingly, activists are learning how to take the places that already exist - homes, businesses, streets - and turn them into refuges from authorities.

Battles for social justice are nearly always fought in public spaces - streets, squares, government buildings. But in the U.S., these areas have become increasingly restricted: Police control what you can do; cameras record your every movement; if you make a ruckus, you can be arrested. So it makes sense that, as public spaces have gotten less receptive to the public, alternative areas - private houses, communes, and, more recently, reclaimed public spaces blocked off from police - have emerged as a solution. In these spaces, activists can recoup, receive medical care, and, most important, start building a better world.

It's impossible to quantify the number of people who have opened their doors for protesters in the last few weeks, but it is clear that these kinds of quasi-public spaces are growing. In New York, for example, there's an entire campaign encouraging theaters to open their lobbies for protesters. Several have, providing snacks, water, places to charge your phone, and face masks.

On the Lower East Side, one performance venue has now turned into an impromptu community center for protesters run by communists and anarchists. (Organizers requested that the name be kept private in order to protect its safety.)

"'Safe space' has been absolutely ruined by conservatives," says A., a 24-year-old artist and bartender who has helped run the space since the protests started. "But that's the most accurate term."

A. says there are 20 to 40 people in the center at any given time. They take volunteer shifts doing night watch to make sure that the space remains secure from police. They're putting on workshops to teach people how to de-escalate conflicts between each other and police while out on the streets, and, A. says, this is only the beginning.

"Even if the insurrection dies down in the streets, our plan is to continue maintaining a radical infrastructure," A. says. "What's going on in Seattle, in Minneapolis, we have our eyes on something bigger."

If you think of safe spaces as part of a continuum of radicalness, houses are perhaps just the first phase: You can only fit so many people in one, and, while they provide refuge, they don't solve the larger problem of public spaces being dangerous for those who want to change the world. Quasi-public spaces, like theaters or communes, might be the next step. But now, activists are looking for more, hoping to change private space into public space, and pushing to repurpose public space into radical space.

Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is the best example of this current reclamation: A cadre of leftists has taken over several city blocks and barricaded police out. Inside, organizers distributed free food at a hastily built farmers' market, begun planting community gardens, and even held a movie night. It's easy to see projects like this as the somewhat silly aspirations of unrealistic young anarchists. But they have an important history in creating the space needed to further revolutionary goals.

Perhaps the best example of this kind of radical-space repurposing is the Occupy movement a decade ago, which turned streets in dozens of cities into training grounds for direct action and mutual aid. In 2011, housing activist Y. Frank Southall was living at Hellarity, an anarchist commune in Oakland, when the Occupy movement spread across the country. As protesters gathered at what they had renamed Oscar Grant Plaza, police violence ensued, and protesters were frequently tear-gassed and constantly faced the prospect of arrest. Hellarity became a refuge for those fleeing the violence, acting as a bedroom, a charging station, and a meeting space for Occupy Oaklanders.

"We just welcomed people in," Southall says. "Runaways. Queer and trans folks. It was a really beautiful space."

At the plaza, people began creating a safe space too: Barricades were set up, and when police would attempt to enter, dozens would surround them until they left.

Southall says that spaces like these often get a reputation for being chaotic, but, in his experience, it's the exact opposite: Community forms, people learn to rely on each other, and they experiment with new forms of living that are less reliant on the state. It's the same whether it's someone's living room, a commune, or a reclaimed public park: Each is about activists taking what's there, repurposing it, and turning it into something potentially revolutionary.

"I think autonomous spaces allow for a lot more creativity in dealing with problems," Southall says. "Our country's systems - housing, the entire economics of it - are designed to cause chaos. Autonomous zones are creative laboratories where we can experiment with things that work."

At Dubey's house, Lane says the entire experience made her feel hopeful about the future.

"I was thinking, This is like Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, " she says. "It felt like revolution."

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On Monday, June 1, Meka, a 22-year-old who lives in Washington, D.C., was, like tens of thousands of others across the U.S., on the streets, fighting against police brutality and systemic racism. He and thousands of D.C. residents marched across the city.

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- How can you describe the Black Lives Matter Movement in 3 sentences?
- Can you recall the start of Black Lives Matter Movement?
- Compare the Black Lives Matter Movement with the Women's March of 2017.
- Explain why Black Lives Matter Movement is popular especially in United States.

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- Hypothesize a situation if George Floyd was a white man.
- Predict the influence of Black Lives Matter on the election of 2020.
- Who is more fault of the cause of the George Floyd incident, the Police or George Floyd?
- What is the best solution to stop the violent protests of Black Lives Matter Movement?

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Appeal to Spite

This article is about a recent comment that President Donald Trump has made regarding the protestors of Black Lives Matter Movement. He explicitly claimed the protestors as a group of "Marxists", who believes in the theory of a world with no classes. Mr President is clearly making an appeal to spite in order to dismiss the BLM by appealing to his personal bias. He is ignoring the purpose of BLM which is rather to remove the hate crime that is consistently happening due to the racial discrimination which shouldn't occur under the Constitution. Yet, Mr Donald Trump continues to claim the BLM as Marxist not looking at the good things of the society. Mr President is considering the BLM as a a socialistic movement. In reality, this movement is rather promoting for the following of the Constitution where every American Citizen has equal rights to live in a safe world. This article clearly indicates an appeal to Spite by describe the interview that Fox News had with President Donald Trump.

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President Trump called Black Lives Matter a Marxist group on Wednesday, pushing back on professional sports players kneeling for the national anthem.

"Black Lives Matter, when did it start? Marching down the street screaming 'pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon.' They were talking about policemen and women," Trump told " Fox & Friends."

"All of sudden, this is taking on this air of great respectability. Well, how does it start there? It's a Marxist group. It's a Marxist group that is not looking for good things for our country and now I see these leagues all kneeling down."
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The comments came after an Oklahoma state lawmaker threatened the Oklahoma City Thunder with tax penalties if the players knelt during the national anthem prior to their game Saturday.

State Rep. Sean Roberts, R-Hominy, said in a statement Friday that by kneeling the NBA was supporting Black Lives Matter and the goal of defunding the police and "its efforts to destroy nuclear families."

"By kneeling during the playing of the national anthem, the NBA and its players are showing disrespect to the American flag and all it stands for. This anti-patriotic act makes clear the NBA's support of the Black Lives Matter group and its goal of defunding our nation's police, its ties to Marxism and its efforts to destroy nuclear families," Roberts said, according to The Oklahoman.
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Trump said Americans should stand for the flag.

"When I see people kneeling during the playing and disrespecting our flag and disrespecting our national anthem, what I do personally is turn off the game and the ratings for basketball are way down," Trump said.

"I hear some others are way down too, including baseball. All of a sudden now baseball is in the act. We have to stand up for our flag, we have to stand up for our country, we have to stand up for our anthem and a lot of people agree with me. Hey, if I am wrong, then I am going to lose an election and that's OK with me. I am always going to stand for our country and flag."
Fox News Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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Trump rips athletes kneeling for anthem, calls Black Lives Matter a 'Marxist group'

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President Trump called Black Lives Matter a Marxist group on Wednesday, pushing back on professional sports players kneeling for the national anthem. "Black Lives Matter, when did it start? Marching down the street screaming 'pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon.' They were talking about policemen and women," Trump told " Fox & Friends."

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Ethos

This article is about the changes in the confidence among policemen in Britain. The article effectively uses the skill of ethos (appeal to authority) to solidify her argument. The author included a specific poll from a Avon and Somerset Police station to cite the increase of hate crime in Britain. Moreover, the author included a similar trend from Charity Stand Against Racism and Equality. In addition to the trend of increasing hate crime, the author included interviews from current policemen such as Mr Wright and Mr Mo Berber to solidify the claim where policemen are understanding more about the issues of hate crime ever since the BLM have started. Throughout the course of the article , the author uses specific authorities such as private organizations and interviews with policemen to support his claim around the changes in policemen's view towards hate crime.

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"So in simple words, it was to make them understand where the hate is coming from and how to identify what is a hate crime and how to challenge it and to reject the hate narratives - it was a very cute project," he said.

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Bristol hate crime reports spike after Black Lives Matter protests

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"So in simple words, it was to make them understand where the hate is coming from and how to identify what is a hate crime and how to challenge it and to reject the hate narratives - it was a very cute project," he said.

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This article is about the Black Lives Matter Movement and claiming it as a perfect example of a failure of multiculturalism. This article passes the CRAAP test that includes: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose. This article talks about the recent issues about Black Lives Movement that became really popular after the death of George Floyd. This article is relevant to my theme of Black Lives Matter Movement. Moreover, this article is from the Conversation.com which is a credible website that is part of a specific company called The Conversation Media Group. Moreover, this website included specific details of their company and cites sources of data/interviews to solidify its credibility of their articles. Not only this article includes accurate information, but it also has a clear purpose of spreading the idea that BLM movement is a perfect example of a failure of multiculturalism in our society.

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Since the killing of George Floyd, an African American man, during an arrest in May, 69% of people in the US report having discussed racial issues with others. Meanwhile, as the Pew research suggests, 82% say they will work with black people in their communities to resolve issues and 67% say they are supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement.

This is to be welcomed, because people's inability to discuss race issues in a civil manner has further contributed to minority inequality and conflict. Indeed, this failure to have forthright discussions about race has led to people of different ethnic groups living parallel lives in the same cities.

This, along with the decreased life chances for non-white people in many western countries, is what the Black Lives Matter movement aims to eradicate. But it's also important to recognise that one of the reasons Black Lives Matter came about in the first place is because the concept of multiculturalism has failed black people.

What is multiculturalism?

In essence, multiculturalism is the practice of giving importance to all cultures in a society. It rejects the idea that culture should be a "melting pot" and rather supports the notion of what sociologists refer to as the "salad bowl", where different cultures coexist without domination; and where there is an integration and representation of cultures in various institutions, which can help to foster tolerance, cohesion and understanding.

The multiculturalism movement has gone through many different stages, influenced by historic events. But multiculturalism as many people think of it today came about as a result of the post-civil rights era. This was when multiculturalism moved away from its original focus of ethnic minority rights and became integrated with various human rights campaigns. Disadvantaged groups - such as women, people with disabilities, people of different religions, languages and social class - joined this struggle for equality against oppression.

As race issues became less important in the multicultural movement, equality for everyone became a more prominent theme. And this focus on equality and human rights for all, meant that multiculturalism failed to achieve transformation for black people in particular.

Racial inequality

Many sociological theorists have argued that multiculturalism has made little difference to black people's lives because the majority of white people benefit from an oppressive system, so do not see a problem with the status quo. And multiculturalism, it seems, has been unable to fully challenge this oppressive system.

Historically, black people have found themselves at the bottom of the pile. This is not to say that racism directed at other groups is not significant, but racism harms black people the most.

Take, for example, the fact that schools in minority communities tend to be not as well equipped and the fact that black children in both the UK and the US are disproportionately more likely to fail in school than other ethnic groups. Research from the UK has also found that black people are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for a mortgage or when wanting to rent a house.

Studies from the US and the UK have also shown that black people are more likely to have access to poor social amenities, are more likely to be discriminated against in the job market and are paid less for the same job.

Add to this the fact that black people in the US are more likely to be killed by the police, have high rates of teenage pregnancy, but are also much more likely to lose a child in childbirth - this is also the case in the UK. As if this wasn't enough, black people are also more likely to go to jail and have higher chances of having a chronic disease or a mental health issue.

So while black children may start off with the same dreams as children from other ethnic backgrounds, as they move through life the options open to them narrow - dreams are abandoned and hope is lost.

Systemic failures?

It's crucial to appreciate that racism is so systemic that without people drawing attention to the deep-rooted and often invisible nature of the issue, it would be easy for many people to ignore.

This is why the Black Lives Matter movement wants to confront and shake up the system and bring the plight of black people to the global consciousness.

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In her book White Fragility, author Robin DiAngelo explains that black people are the " ultimate racial other". And that white people routinely become defensive and disbelieving when their ideas about race and racism are challenged. It's maybe not surprising then that just as Black Lives Matter went global, so too did the backlash.

Research has found that those most likely to be prejudiced against Black Lives Matter are white people with conservative views. This is maybe not totally surprising but for there to be real change for black people it is vital that everyone is able to recognise the benefits of a more integrated society.

This is where teaching children a broader curriculum that includes black history would help. As would a focus on past and present campaigns for racial and social justice. Indeed, this would help students to appreciate links between global histories and those of their own communities. Because without Black Lives Matter the promise of true multiculturalism will continue to remain something of a pipe-dream.

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How the failure of multiculturalism led to the rise of Black Lives Matter

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Since the killing of George Floyd, an African American man, during an arrest in May, 69% of people in the US report having discussed racial issues with others. Meanwhile, as the Pew research suggests, 82% say they will work with black people in their communities to resolve issues and 67% say they are supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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This article is about how George Floyd's death illicit the Black Lives Matter Movement to become more viral and more recognized around the world. The author specifically highlights the brutality of the Police on their violence with racial discrimination. Moreover, the author includes the leaked police camera that highlights the footages of the situation where George Floyd was arrested. The author uses this video as a critical evidence to exemplify the racial discrimination in America. However, the author ignored another critical evidence in the video. The video clearly includes the process where the police got a report around a possible crime around counterfeit. When the police asked for a search, George Floyd refused to follow the polices' order multiple times and was even suspected to show drug reactions which were all record in the camera. Yet, the author chose to ignore this important information to analyze the validity of considering the polices' action as a "violence" due to racial disccrimination. The article shows a firm stance of the author ignoring an important evidence to keep his claim that polices' action was unjustified.

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How George Floyd's death ignited a racial reckoning that shows no signs of slowing down | CNN

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The George Floyd police brutality protests are different - bigger, fiercer, more sustained - than demonstrations prior.

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This article is about the Black Lives Movement and its influence to the election on November. After a short  summary around Black Lives Matter movement, the author uses this movement to connect the data with the votings on the two candidates: Donald Trump and Joe Biden. For example, he considers this movement to have negative impact on the votes towards Donald Trump who have rolled back civil rights enforcement, limited immigration, separated undocumented families at the border and repeatedly targeted immigrants and minorities with racist language. Moreover, he comprehends this movement on a political lense by highlighting a comment from a democrat that critiques the Republican's approach towards this issue which diverges the population depending on its age group. The author supports the claim with specific data points from Kaiser Family Foundation to strengthen the political lense regarding this issue. In conclusion, the author analyzes the issue around Black Lives Matter by connecting with the election of 2020 around its influence.

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The BLM protests preview the politics of a diversifying America

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The movement against police mistreatment of African Americans is broadening far beyond its core support in the Black community, with potentially landmark consequences for the movement and for the younger generations who have fueled this spring's protests.

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This article is about the progress that Black Lives Matter Movement has made till nowadays. The author highlights specific polls to show the large size of this on-going protest. The perspective of this article stays neutral and objective to critically analyze the movement's special characteristics and its extensive influence in the United States. The author cites specific authorities such as Kaiser Family Foundation, Civis Analytics, N.O.R.C. and Pew to analyze the large number of those who participated in the protest. For example, the Kaiser Family Foundation concluded that around 26 million had participated in this movement. Moreover, the author uses a map using population numbers to analyze the extensive size of this protest all around the United States. Finally, the author compares the Black Lives Movement to Women's March of 2017 to indicate the large number of participants. He included a numerical poll to show the number of participants in the protest on the daily basis. In conclusion, the author utilizes specific authorities, graphs and comparison to a different movement to claim the neutral and objective perspective over the issue of Black Lives Matter.

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Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History (Published 2020)

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Recent polls suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the U.S. have participated in recent protests.