Intro: I feel that Social Media can be really influential along with vital in educating the public on current events happening throughout the world. And a current event that is happening all over America right now is the Black Lives Matter movement, along with all of the protesting against police brutality. I think there is a lot of confusion towards what the movement stands for and why it is such a large part of everyone's social media today. I decided to do a little research on the past couple of months and how things led to protesting and riots. But this blatant racism and white privilege and ignorances goes way farther back than a few months.  This issue is  important because we as a society need to start educating ourselves, and stop ignoring uncomfortable topics to talk about just because they make us uncomfortable. I have grown up with white privilege all my life, and I acknowledge that. But that does not mean that I have any right to abuse it. It is vital that people begin to notice how others are treated and start seeing people for people and not just their skin tone. I think that we are all created equal and the differences that we do have should be celebrated and cultures should be shared. And not that people of different races should think they are less or better than another race.

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