Concept 2: BLM vs. All Lives Matter You scream out Black Lives Matters, and you’re guaranteed to hear someone scream, All Lives Matter. So which one is it? Do Black Lives Matter or do All Lives Matter? If they all matter, then why is All Lives Matter used to discredit Black Lives Matter? In the letter to his son, Coates presents why Black Lives should but don’t Matter in America. “It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us” (p. 106) Q. How does the “essential below” concept from Coates inform the BLM/ ALM debate?   - JA

REUTERS     Jonathan Bachman      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36759711

This photo taken during Baton Rouge protests has been called Lady Liberty + the Muse of BLMWhat does this image evoke in you? What does it say about protest? About BLM movement?

Ieshia Evans shares her perspective: I Wasn’t Afraid. I Took a Stand in Baton Rouge Because Enough is Enoughhttps://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/22/i-wasnt-afraid-i-took-a-stand-in-baton-rouge-because-enough-is-enough

Photo Editors Weigh In on Iconic Protest Photohttp://petapixel.com/2016/07/13/photo-editors-weigh-jonathan-bachmans-iconic-protest-photo/

What is BLM? Huff Post video_What the World Needs to Know About Black Lives Matterhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-the-world-needs-to-know-about-black-lives-matter_us_578e897fe4b04ca54ebf2558?“Pro black is not synonymous with anti-white or anti-cop”

What 3 Years of “BLM” Means in 11 Powerful Tweets http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/07/13/3797942/3-years-black-lives-matter-means-11-powerful-tweets/

11 Major Misconceptions about BLMhttp://blacklivesmatter.com/11-major-misconceptions-about-the-black-lives-matter-movement/

Photo by Jama Abdirahman   Seattle Globalist Black Lives Nov 2015http://www.seattleglobalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Black-Lives-Matter-Friday-1356.jpg

Business Insider_BLM Has a Policy Platformhttp://www.businessinsider.com/black-lives-matter-has-a-policy-platform-2015-8

Atlanta Blackstar_Why the Debate over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter Actually Matters in Reclaiming the Black Narrative http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/07/22/why-the-debate-over-black-lives-matter-and-all-lives-matter-actually-matters-in-reclaiming-the-black-narrative/

Insidious Violence of All Lives Matterhttp://www.salon.com/2015/08/06/the_insidious_undeniable_violence_of_alllivesmatter_partner/

Vox_Why you should stop saying ‘all lives matter’ explained in 9 different wayshttp://www.vox.com/2016/7/11/12136140/black-all-lives-matter

The Root_Two Years After Ferguson MO the Fight Grows, Goes on for BLMhttp://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/08/2-years-after-ferguson-mo-the-fight-grows-goes-on-for-black-lives-matter/

All Black Lives Matter http://blacklivesmatter.com/guiding-principles/“We affirm that all black lives matter”

Q. What stance does BLM take on gay, queer and trans identity? According to the article, and their founding website, what is meant by “all black lives matter”? And why would this distinction need to be made?Daily Dot_How 4 BLM Activists Handle Queer and Trans Issues http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/black-lives-matter-queer-trans-issues/

Kimberlé Crenshaw, a co-founder of the AAFP said, “We don’t have existing frames to understand and talk about black women. If people don’t have a frame, they forget the facts...we have to include women in that to make sure that all the ways that black bodies are victimized by police are part of our demands and part of the reform.”  Use the social media guide to analyze the images of the Twitter #sayhername movement; place this analysis in context of the all black lives matter philosophy and what it means for the movement and for police reform.

#Sayhername         http://www.aapf.org/sayhername/

Policy Briefhttp://static1.squarespace.com/static/53f20d90e4b0b80451158d8c/t/560c068ee4b0af26f72741df/1443628686535/AAPF_SMN_Brief_Full_singles-min.pdfSocial Media Guidehttp://static1.squarespace.com/static/53f20d90e4b0b80451158d8c/t/555e2412e4b0bd5f4da5d3a4/1432232978932/SAYHERNAME+Social+Media+Guide.compressed.pdf

Black Youth Projecthttp://blackyouthproject.com/This site offers news, politics, and research by youth

Q. What is the argument or stance behind the poster in the cartoon? How does this fit in with the BLM/ ALM debate?

Coates on ‘Black-on-black’ crime“ ‘Black-on-black crime’ is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel...The plunder of black life was drilled into this country in its infancy and reinforced across its history, so that plunder has become an heirloom, an intelligence, a sentience, a default setting” (p. 111).

“There is the burden of living among Dreamers, and there is the extra burden of your country telling you the Dream is just, noble, and real, and you are crazy for seeing the corruption...For their innocence, they nullify your anger, your fear, until you are coming and going, and you find yourself...really inveighing against your own humanity and raging against the crime in your

ghetto, because you are powerless before the great crime of history that brought the ghettos to be” (p. 106).   Q. What is this “great crime of history’ that Coates refers to you in both quotes?

Q. Why do people believe that BLM movement is ‘inherently racist’?CNN - Rudy Giuliani BLM as Inherently Racist https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/07/11/politics/rudy-giuliani-black-lives-matter-inherently-racist/index.html#

Daily Dot_The BLM Guide to Racist Trolls http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/black-lives-matter-on-trolls/

Decoded_How to Handle Trolls BLMhttp://www.colorlines.com/articles/watch-how-handle-trolls-topic-black-lives-matter?utm_term=WATCH%3A%20How%20to%20Handle%20Trolls%20on%20the%20Topic%20of%20Black%20Lives%20Matter&utm_campaign=We%20Need%20to%20Pay%20Attention%20to%20White%20Nationalism.%20Now.&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email&cm_mmc=Act-On%20Software-_-email-_-We%20Need%20to%20Pay%20Attention%20to%20White%20Nationalism.%20Now.-_-WATCH%3A%20How%20to%20Handle%20Trolls%20on%20the%20Topic%20of%20Black%20Lives%20Matter

New Yorker, The Matter of BLMhttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/where-is-black-lives-matter-headed

BBC - Why Don’t Black and White Americans Live Together?http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35255835

Role of Media Wash Post_Why I Will Not Share the Video of Alton Sterling’s Deathhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/06/why-i-will-not-share-the-video-of-alton-sterlings-death/          

Bijan Stephan_How BLM Uses Social Media to Fight the Powerhttp://www.wired.com/2015/10/how-black-lives-matter-uses-social-media-to-fight-the-power/

How Black People Can Emotionally Protect Themselves In Age of BLM https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/07/24/how-black-people-can-emotionally-protect-themselves-in-the-age-of-blacklivesmatter/?tid=a_inl