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White Lives Matter (WLM) is a white supremacist slogan that emerged in 2015 as a reaction to the Black Lives Matter social justice movement that started a few years prior. [1] The phrase has been used by neo-Nazis , Neo-Confederates , and other white supremacist groups to recruit new members into white supremacist movements and demonstrations.
In 1999, the SPLC listed 457 hate groups; that number steadily increased until 2011, when 1,018 groups were listed. [2] [12] [13] The rise from 2008 onward was attributed in part to anger at Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States. [2] Thereafter, the number of hate groups steadily dropped, reaching a low of 784 in 2014 (a ...
The video consists of Bliss holding a sign reading "Black Lives Matter" in Harrison, Arkansas, a town that has been dubbed "America's Most Racist Town" due to its connections to white pride riots and the headquarters of the white supremacist terrorist hate group the Ku Klux Klan. During the video, multiple white passersby drive by and shout ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has provided the FBI with information on hate groups. [5] Since 1981, the SPLC has published a quarterly Intelligence Report that provides updates on its monitoring of what it describes as radical right hate groups and extremists in the United States, providing information on the organizational efforts and tactics of these groups. [6]
Context. Police brutality and lack of police accountability. " I can't breathe " is a slogan of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the last words of Eric Garner, an unarmed man who was killed in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by a New York City Police Officer.
Following a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 15 protesters were charged with assisting a criminal street gang for using the phrase "all cops are bastards" while wearing black clothes and carrying umbrellas. The police officers who arrested them said the protesters were members of "a group known as ACAB All ...
Judd Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, marched in the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally. Now he faces an April 2 vote to recall him from office.
A Black Lives Matter die-in over rail tracks, protesting alleged police brutality in Saint Paul, Minnesota (September 20, 2015) Black Lives Matter ( BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement [ 1][ 2] that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people and to promote anti-racism.