It started as a Facebook post and became a rallying cry against police brutality... This is the story of Black Lives Matter.
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00:00Black lives matter because you're killing black people.
00:04All lives matter, but you got to think about who dying out here.
00:08When y'all go home, we're worrying about our kids coming home.
00:11Y'all kids going to college.
00:13Mine going to the penitentiary in the graveyard.
00:16Black lives matter! Black lives matter! Black lives matter!
00:30If we say black lives matter, then does that mean only black lives?
00:38It's like, no.
00:41But that's interesting that that's what would come from that, right?
00:44I remember in that moment, just sitting and really with the fact that everybody knew what took place.
01:03And despite all the knowledge, despite the testimonies, despite all of that,
01:08Trayvon Martin was put on trial for his own death, his murder.
01:11I read a Facebook post by Alicia Garza, and it was this really well-written,
01:16basically like a love note to our people saying, yeah, we should be outraged.
01:20We shouldn't sit idly by. We shouldn't take this for granted.
01:24And we can actually do something about it.
01:26And then at the end of her post, she said something like, our lives matter.
01:29Black lives matter.
01:41We're peacefully protesting and that our lives matter and everyone should care
02:09because police brutality is not OK against black people, against anybody.
02:30There have been those in recent months who have tried to minimize the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement.
02:40They try to minimize it or trivialize it by saying, well, all lives matter.
02:44Blue lives matter. Well, we get that and we know that all lives matter.
02:48But the point is, is that when this nation has a history of this kind of inhumane,
02:56brutal treatment aimed at African-Americans, especially males,
03:01and we now have the luxury of being able to see this captured on film,
03:07then it adds another whole dimension.
03:16We can stand up together and say, yes, black lives matter.
03:26It was a hashtag. It was a platform. And now what we're seeing is that it's actually a network.
03:44All lives matter. Remember that. Remember that. All lives matter.
03:55So we'll have these little interruptions.
04:03We can see that racism in our society is relentless.
04:07We can see that all of our struggles and all of our communities are intertwined.
04:11And that if we let one community be swept to the side or deported,
04:16that we know that it means all of us are under attack.
04:19Black Lives Matter started five years ago and three black women started it.
04:23And the fact that five years later, people are still honoring us and giving us our credit
04:27just shows the strength of our resistance movement in this moment.
04:41I don't want to have to be having this conversation years and years later with my children,
04:54like, because of your skin, you're a threat.
04:57I don't want to be telling my kids because of your dark and melanated skin that you're going to die.
05:03You have to fear for your life when you're pulled over.
05:18We've commissioned the artwork. We've renamed the plaza.
05:23And we think it's going to have a central place, not in just D.C. history, but in American history.
05:30And we should be proud of it.
05:57To me, black lives don't matter until you're dead.
06:00We have a massive turnout because of George Floyd's death,
06:06murdered by the hands of a police officer that was sworn to uphold the law.