Blog Post #4

A statue to bring awareness 

In the past year since the death of George Floyd, a lot of awareness and movement has started for the African-American community. This horrible incident has started a lot of conversation about how change needed to be made within our society and across the United States. Not only in the United States was it an issue but even all over the world as well. Once the conversation started and more awareness was brought to the African-American community last May protest started. This leads to many people playing a role to help get involved to play their part in how they can make a change. The death of George Floyd did spark a movement and made more individuals a part of the movement of “black lives matter”.  This was vital for the African-American community because there were many incidents and comments being made that went silenced.

In the United States, a lot of positive change has occurred but recently in Europe, there was an incident in the city of Budapest which is the capital of Hungary. A statute was put up for display for the black lives matter movement and was sadly taken down after only one day of being put up. The statue displayed a lady holding a sign for black lives matter. But it was sadly destroyed after one day. This further shows that there is still a lot of hatred and disagreement still present. 

Black Lives Matter Statue

This incident corresponds to the First Amendment because in it we are allowed to have freedom of speech. But when it is flat-out mean and going against what it actually means, it is wrong in a lot of ways. No matter what if it is a private or public company, as an individual you are still obligated to follow it. The statue being destroyed was done in Europe but within society, it is never justified to be okay. Some individuals may feel like they are being censored online but they may be due to the fact of the content they are posting. If it is crossing the line maybe it does not belong on the internet and they should re-think what they are posting for anyone to see. The statue was supposed to bring positive feedback and more awareness to the community for two weeks. It was bringing more awareness to what occurred during the black lives matter protest. Even though the protest ended, the statue was trying to continue to bring more awareness to the African-American community today.