Why BLM isn't a hate group

Many people view the BLM movement as a hate group. Truth is, it’s just a group of people, of many races, that aren’t happy with black people being treated unequally. The media will always make things look way worse than it really is. I blame the media for giving the movement such a bad name. For example, Bill O’Reilly from Fox News said “I think they're a hate group, they hate police officers ... they hate them, they want them dead”. First off, the movement is not anti-police. There are tons of great police officers out there that take their job seriously and treat everyone equally like they should. However, there are some officers who don’t treat everyone the same. Every officers job is to serve and protect. The three sisters (Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza) who started the movement also stated, “Police officers are people. Their lives have inherent value. This movement is not an anti-people movement; therefore, it is not an anti-police-officer movement. Most police officers are just everyday people who want to do their jobs, make a living for their families, and come home safely at the end of their shift”. There is no reason that an innocent black man should fear being pulled over or confronted by an officer. There have been way too many cases that a black man was killed for allegedly “reaching for a weapon” while they were asked to show their license and registration. The weird thing about that is that at the end, there wasn’t a gun or any weapon. Police officers are so quick to pull out a gun and shoot a black man as if their life doesn’t matter. Officers carry pepper spray, a taser, etc. so why turn do they turn to the gun first and pull the trigger. Due to some of the recent protest that resulted in police officers being injured, people blame the movement as a whole and therefore say that the movement is a “hate group”. You can’t say that the people who support the movement all hate police just because of the actions of a few people. With that being said, the movement would like that police officers treat everyone the same instead of viewing the black man as unsafe and dangerous.

I’m still trying to figure out how some people believe this movement to be anti-white. Black Lives Matter is not saying that black lives are the only lives that matter, its saying that black lives matter too. The people that think that the BLM movement is anti-white are the people that believe in order for white lives to matter, black lives cannot. And that’s where we as a country fail. We are all human and deserve to be treated the same regardless of the color of your skin. The three sisters also said that “None of this is about hatred for white life. It is about acknowledging that the system already treats white lives as if they have more value, as if they are more worthy of protection, safety, education, and a good quality of life than black lives are”. Black lives haven’t mattered throughout history and this movement is to help change that and allow blacks to receive the same aid as a white person will get. For example, Dylann Storm Roof, a 21-year-old high school dropout, who shot 9 worshippers was treated to burger king by police officers after being arrested. First off, why would anyone who killed 9 people be allowed to go to burger king after the arrest. If the tables were flipped and it was a black man who killed even 1 person, I bet he wouldn’t have been taken to burger king by officers. This goes to show that white people are valued more than black people are and it shouldn’t be that way. The Black Lives Matter movement is trying to make a change and there are tons of people of different races, including white people, that support this movement.