Ala S Atshan
Professor Klopfenstein
Composition II
April 22, 2021
Blue Lives Matter
The slogan, ‘Blue Lives Matter’ is criticized for hiding the high rates of violence committed by the police against black people. Being a movement, Blue Lives Matter is a distraction from the almost daily violent acts committed by the police against black people. Their call for the protection of ‘blue lives,’ together with their defense of the violence they commit by framing black men as the true attackers, make the police more fearful of any encounter with black people. Blue Lives Matter is racist, and the Blue Lives Matter was just created as a supremacist response to Black 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, the Blue 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.
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 to make them silent and make 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 realizes and knows 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. Through its efforts to make the police officers viewed positively, it does not outdo the fact that some police officers maliciously hate the blacks and victimize them on so many occasions (Blue Lives Matter). As a result, the blue lives matter is a biased movement.
Therefore, the blue lives matter movement is a racist organization whose main focus does not seem much concerned with the pains and hurt of the blacks 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, which makes the movement even more unappealing to the public. Even though it is wrong to target police officers, this movement goes ahead to promote the police officers and even in some states like 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?”)
The movement advocates for a society that makes it difficult for a person to question things done by the police. This paralyzes the police force and 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 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 thus 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 do anything they want with them (Vaughn-Hall, 3).
Blue Lives Matter is a racist movement. It is evident that blue lives already matter. Black lives in this nation are the less protected, most vulnerable, and it is the police who are killing them. We need to eliminate the “blue lives matter” argument since it is just racist. Police officers willingly choose their profession; they clock out when they finish their shift, go home, and take their badge off. It is a job, not a race. On the other hand, Black Lives Matter is all about race. The black individuals cannot go back home and not be Black anymore; they did not willingly choose to be Black individuals in the world. The Blue Lives matter is only ridicule as a valuable and actual movement. Due to racism, black people are more likely to be murdered by police officers than white individuals (Copper & Rudy, 621). They are also three times more likely to be unarmed and get murdered than white individuals. The Blue Lives Matter shows how the Black community has been going through injustices for their whole lives.
Individuals who support Blue Lives Matter either do not care or do not understand that it was created clearly as a counter to Black Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter is perceived as a racist movement against the Black Lives Matter movement, or at least as willful blindness to racist policing. Many Black people are going through events while remembering the childhood stories they heard from their grandparents or parents due to harassment and oppression. The movement of Blue Lives Matter is a hypocrisy that stems from the attack that came down on the attack of Black Lives Matter Movement as many were termed as looters and rioters, although the demonstrations were peaceful. The Black Lives Matter movement fights for Black women, men, and nonbinary individuals who were murdered by police. On the other hand, Blue Lives Matter is driven by racism and fight against the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Blue Lives Matter is the prototypical Trump-era movement, powered by hatred and inciting anxiety among the African Americans. It is what exactly makes Blue Lives Matter so bad. Not only is this movement a conservative counterpoint to Black Lives Matter but also a facilitator for the racial uncertainties that make the police officers kill defenseless men. The complete aim of Blue Lives Matter is to provide a picture of police across the country as being the ones truly under attack (Mason, 15). It is the standard excuse for the police to murder with impunity asserting that they fear their lives as an ideology. Blue Lives Matter focuses on more than just police, but most of the time comes back to the main theme of racism, fear-mongering, and xenophobia. It is not calling for peace and respect but fear. It is in the setting of fear that the rate of police shootings has remained unhindered. In conclusion, Blue Lives Matter is an undesirable force within American society. Its efforts have hidden agendas of making sure that the Blacks Live Matter movement ends and that they can do whatever they want with the blacks whom they come across.
Works cited
Cooper, Frank Rudy. “Cop Fragility and Blue Lives Matter.” U. Ill. L. Rev. (2020): 621.
Mason, Gail. “Blue Lives Matter and Hate Crime Law.” Race and Justice (2020): 2153368720933665.
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/
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/
