1.

Choose three social sciences and relate these in making a hypothesis that will be relevant to the issue
of “Black Lives Matter Movement.”

(Tick your selected Social Sciences)

o Geography
o Political Sciences
o Psychology
o Anthropology
o History
o Sociology

Political Science

The Black Lives Matter Movement deconstructs political patterns and policy responses to police brutality
against African-American people. With a worrying statistic that shows that out of the thousands of
civilians killed every year by police officers in the US, black men are 2.5 times more likely to be victims of
this excessive use of force repeatedly. It stands firm as an outcry to the systemic inequality that
surrounds America’s law enforcement agency, and highlights racial bias in policing and state-sanctioned
violence. The BLM movement comes forward as not merely another civil rights movement, but more
likely a human rights movement, and reinstates policies like consent decrees, banning chokeholds,
limiting military-grade weapons, and expanding investigations into police units with records and
accusations of abuse. Law Enforcement Agencies all over the country are fundamentally corrupt, and
this movement calls to spend state taxes on healthcare, education and community programs instead on
policing and de-escalation trainings. With that, the movement per se is the radical solution to end the
black struggle for equality by reforming the system as a governing body that believes that black
minoritized lives matter just as white lives do.

Sociology

The Black Lives Matter Movement leads modern society towards a major paradigm shift about
embedded racism. It carries a dramatic raise of public consciousness and awareness on things that
constitute racism on the daily like using racial slurs, incurring violence, discriminating people of color in
the workplace, and subscribing to discriminatory beliefs embedded in organizations and institutions
through performing certain practices and procedures. The movement brings about moral call to action,
compelling ordinary people to take action and take part on ending police violence over black
communities all over the country. Through galvanizing public outrage over aggressive and unjust police
tactics, BLM Movement cultivates a dialogue of massively restructuring the country as its foundations
were built along concepts of racism and black slavery, and address racial inequality in a manner that
doesn’t put anyone in a gray area. BLM is not an uprising that threatens the false peace that exists in the
community. It is the force that counteracts a deeply flawed status quo that promotes a culture of
violence; no longer tolerating abuse of any kind.
Geography

The Black Lives Matter Movement evolves as the most influential social movement of the post-civil
rights era as organizers restlessly continue to work in their local communities, fighting for change and
speaking truth to power. Racial tensions inflame as data suggests that 15 to 26 million people took part
on demonstrations to fight for the death of George Floyd and other black killings over the recent weeks.
Black Lives Matter turns out as the largest movement to date in the whole American history as large
scale of protests happen in nearly 550 places across the United States. Through effective mediated
mobilization, the widespread of awareness and urgency to challenge segregation and talk about an issue
that has been ignored for so long continues. This massive geographic spread of protest achieves what
hasn’t been done before: putting in motion an efficient and sustained social and political change across
the country over a short period of time. Small towns and large cities pour in their overflowing support
for the movement by participating in achieving this tipping point in social change. BLM undoubtedly
changes human dynamics in resolving exclusion and suppression of communities of color by making the
movement as extensive as possible.

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