ESL 5315 ACADEMIC WRITING, FALL 2016
Judas Tadeo
INVESTIGATING THE FEELINGS OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
STAKEHOLDERS ABOUT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
Instructor: Mr. Leverett Thomas
December 5, 2016
Abstract
We conducted a survey among
Texas Tech university stakeholders to investigate their feelings about the Black
Lives Matter movement. Our respondents included undergraduates, graduates, and
staff. Our study was guided by a predetermined set of hypotheses that helped us
draft the survey questions.
We examined the feelings of
stakeholders about several aspects that included the nature of protest by
Collin Kaepernick, whether the police were fair to blacks or not, whether
racism was a problem or not, etc. Interesting findings showed that most of the
respondents were not in support with the nature of the protest by Collin
Kaepernick, though they supported the movement. We successfully attained our goal of investing
such various aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement as will be seen in the
next sections of this write-up.
The Black Lives Matter Movement
We investigated the Black Lives
Matter amongst Texas Tech University students to gain an insight into their
feelings and opinions about the issue. Several articles showed us how other
different people felt horrified by the issue. This included the native white
Americans who are civilians. In fact,
though the issue exists, it is only compounded and intensified by a few police
officials but not civilian Americans. Worley (2015,
para.14), in the article “11 Major Misconceptions About the Black Lives Matter
Movement” advised blacks to avoid defying the police in any way possible and
also to stop “engaging in combative behavior when confronted by police.” Worley
(2015, para.14), for instance, felt blacks lead to the escalation of the matter
due to their combative behavior. Curtis (2015, para.15), in the same article,
responded to Worley (2015, para.14), by citing several incidents where no
combative behavior or lack of cooperation with police existed, but still people
lost their lives. Curtis (2015, para.15) clearly expressed her feelings
supporting the movement. On the 27th of November 2015 in the same article,
Patricia Worley (2015, para.20) also expressed her feelings and said, “When I
saw the video footage of the murder of that poor young man by that police
officer, I was horrified, physically sickened, and totally outraged. I am a
white American that wants the injustices, inequities, and particularly the
violence to stop against black people.”
Many whites, businessmen, politicians, and
intellectuals came up to offer their opinions in a bid to sustainably and
completely eradicate the vice. In the article “Thousands Of Employees Erupt In Support of CEO After Powerful Speech
About Black Lives Matter” by Wong, (2016, para.4), AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson in his speech
said, “When we talk about race, let’s begin the discussion with ‘Why?’
Why does my colleague feel this way? If we could understand why, it’s so much
more likely that we could begin to agree on what needs to be done. You guys are
a model for America. Look around. It does not get any more diverse than this.”
Glenn (2016, para.2), also expressed his feelings and opinions saying, “I
believe the greatness of our country lies in our founders’ creation of a system
that allows and encourages all voices to be heard. The only way for our society
to work is for each of us to respect the views of others, and even try to
understand and empathize with one another. I have always tried to work toward
this goal, even though I have often been guilty of conflating the individual
with the whole”. While we saw different
individuals and parties coming up with opinions to eradicate the vice, we also
carried out a survey in Texas Tech University to understand how the key
stakeholders, mainly students, felt about the issue and the movement, and also
got their opinions on how to eradicate the vice.
While many may be wondering what
intensifies the vice, Hafner (2016) unveils that police brutality and consequently,
counterattacks made onto the police result in extrajudicial killings, which
eventually intensify the matter. The matter does not only focus on killings but
also on lack of justice. Hafner suggests that Black Lives Matter should have
its focus on black-on-black crimes which are steered up by extreme poverty
levels amongst the blacks. The matter also reveals that while blacks suffer
such life atrocities and mayhems, many white Americans also suffer exactly the
same things though at quite a low rate (in the ratio of 1:3 approximately) (Hafner,
2016). Our survey of approximately 300 respondents covered most of key aspects
stipulated in the above paragraphs which were guided and regulated by the
hypotheses in the subsequent sections.
Literature
Review
Peniel (2016, para.1) indicated
that the matter simply started with a hashtag (#) but has now turned into a
“rallying cry, a cause and a movement in the wake of the deaths of black men at
the hands of police”. In the article “A
HerStory of the Black Lives Matter, The Creation of a Movement” by Garza
(2014), literature revealed that the Black Lives Matter started as movement
that was created in 2012 by Alicia Garza. Garza (2014) with her two sisters
Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi formed the movement after the murder of
17-year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman on the 28th of
February, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. In
July 2013, Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder charges against him, since he
admitted doing it in self-defense to a teen that would have killed him. Garza (2014, para.1) pointed out that George
Zimmerman was exonerated of this murder, but yet Trayvon Martin “was
post-humously placed on trial for his own murder “and that this was unfair.
Zimmerman was a civilian white American as stipulated in George Zimmerman (n.d.) in Wikipedia. The article affirmed
that the movement was meant to peacefully counter anti-black racism. This can
be inferred from the statement, “Black Lives Matter is an ideological and
political intervention in a world where black lives are systematically and
intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of black folks’
contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of
deadly oppression” (Garza, 2014, para.2).
McLaughlin (2016)
indicated that the movement was fueled by social media platforms of Twitter
(with the tag #BlackLivesMatter) and Facebook, when a multitude and a big
network of people responded to posts from Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal
Tometi after the exoneration of of a by then a 28 year old Zimmerman by a
Florida Jury in July 2013 (Zimmerman,
2015, para.1).
A
point to note is that Trayvon Martin was murdered by a civilian. The murder of
another unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, as stipulated in Wikipedia, sparked up yet another fire
into the Black Lives Matter. Michael Brown, 18, was shot by a 28 year police
Officer called Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on the 9th of August, 2014. The
article Ferguson Unrest in Wikipedia describes
the protests that occurred in Ferguson the day after the murder of Michael
Brown. The protest also continued on 24th of November, 2014 when the
Jury did not indict the police officer, Mr. Wilson. Wikipedia (para.1) revealed that, “the unrest sparked a vigorous
debate in the United States about the relationship between law
enforcement officers and African Americans, the militarization of the
police, and the Use of Force Doctrine in
Missouri and nationwide” and thus proliferating activism against the
vice. There had been a series of murders reportedly, by police officers, as a
result of self-defense, to protect their lives as the key reason. The murders
led to different protests as described in the next section.
Upon every death, hundreds of
African American communities gather to the streets in a bid to eradicate the
vice with the tag “Black Lives Matter”. As described above, the Ferguson unrest
was one such protest that gathered hundreds to the streets. The protest was
violent as several properties were destroyed and others looted as described in
the article, Ferguson Unrest (n.d.) in Wikipedia.
While the police officers involved were in most cases not indicted by the grand
Juries, the Black Lives Matter activists thought and felt it was unfair and an
injustice to the blacks by the police. We therefore carried out a survey to
investigate what Texas Tech students felt about this matter. Several such
protests had been carried out in different cities whenever there was such an
incident.
Several forms of protests had
been seen amongst renowned African Americans. One such case was that of Collin
Kaepernick, who continuously and intentionally refused to stand while singing
the American national anthem at the start of football games. Wyche (2016)
showed that Kaepernick regarded the Black Lives Matter as more important
than football and that he vowed to remain in the protest regardless of the
outcome. Amidst much criticism, the 49ers group surprisingly issued a
statement which conclusively supported Kaepernick’s right to express
his feelings. His coach also clearly said, it was Kaepernick’s right
to do what he thought was right. The National Football League also issued a
statement that exempts players from standing during the singing of anthems,
denoting that though necessary, it was not mandatory. The Coach highlighted that
there was not any incident whatsoever, where Kaepernick had been
threatened to be removed from football, or stakeholders simply sitting to
discuss his exit from football. Amidst several protests, the shootings had not
stopped yet as witnessed amongst the police and the blacks.
Based on the literature reviewed,
the Black Lives Matter remained an issue whose probable sustainable solution
still seemed just theoretical, imaginary, and unachievable yet. Our research
that was purely academic was guided by the following hypotheses to gain an
insight among Texas Tech students about their feelings and opinions on the
cross-cutting issues of the Black Lives Matter.
Hypotheses
for the Survey
1.
80% of
American students would admit they were not equally at peace with the matter.
2.
All our respondents would freely tell us if
they felt the killings by police were accidental or not. This hypothesis would
clear our intuition as to whether people felt the police were fair to the black
people or not.
3.
90% of our respondents
that supported the movement, whether Americans or not, would not support the
nature of the protest by Collin Kaepernick but would support his right to
protest. In general, we believed people supported his right but didn’t agree
with his nature of protest.
4.
The biggest
number of respondents would agree with our belief that racism, though a big
problem in the United States, could still be addressed. In this case,
respondents would provide some probable solutions for eradicating the vice. On
the other hand, if the reverse was true, respondents would provide reasons for
the likely cause of the death incidents.
5.
We believed
that 95% of all our respondents, mainly Americans, would be very familiar with
the issue. This was basically to investigate the extent to which the movement was
familiar.
Methods
To conduct our study, we carried
out a survey amongst Texas Tech university students and staff as our target
respondents. But first, we designed a survey
that had forty four questions in total. All the questions were fitted on 2
pages of a single paper. This was done to ensure that we had a portable but yet
a comprehensive survey. Our major target was to have a total of at least 300
respondents. There were two different classes all taking the academic writing
course that were involved in the survey. Each class contained a total of 10
students making a total of 20 student researchers, with each one of us
targeting a minimum of thirteen respondents. Our Instructor and his three
Teaching Assistants each conducted the survey as well. We were thus 24 in total
who did the survey. In general, our target of obtaining at least 300
respondents was 97.3% achieved as will be further elaborated in the next
section. There were no strict conditions that guided our selection of
respondents apart from ensuring that we had a higher number of Americans, and
within the university arena. We were
otherwise free to go anywhere on campus and interact with any person we could
meet regardless of gender, religion, political affiliations, age, or race. In
any case, we did not inquire of any such details from our respondents before
issuing them the questionnaire.
The data that we needed to
collect was comprehensively catered for in the survey questions that were
either directly or indirectly addressing our hypotheses. My hypotheses that
guided the structuring of some of the Black Lives Matter questions are as
summarized below:
I believed that 80% of American
respondents would admit that they were not equally at peace with the matter. I
also believed that all our respondents would freely tell us if they felt the
killings by police were accidental or not.
More so, I and my fellow
researchers were in agreement that 90% of our respondents that supported the
movement, whether Americans or not, would not support the nature of protest by
Collin Kaepernick but would support his right to protest. We believed that
people supported his right but did not agree with his nature of his protest.
I believed the biggest number of
respondents would agree with us that racism was a big problem in the United
States, but it could as well be easily addressed. This meant that respondents
would provide probable solutions for eradicating the vice or provide reasons
for the likely cause of the death incidents if they never believed that racism
was the problem. We also believed 95% of all our American respondents would be
very familiar with the issue. This was to investigate the extent to which the
movement was popular. All our survey questions were guided by such hypotheses
from different researchers.
As earlier mentioned, our survey
had a total of 44 questions, all fitted on only 2 pages of a single paper. The
questions were divided into four sections that included one section for
demographic questions (4 questions in total), and three sections for our three
major topics. The topics included Social Media (21 questions), Parental Leave
(10 questions), and Black Lives Matter (9 questions). Our survey had not more than
three open ended questions. Most of the questions were closed and required
yes/no answers, or simply selecting a value based on a specific given scale for
rating. Our classes were grouped into
three, each handling a topic.
After the data was collected from
different places around campus, each one of us fed it into Google sheets that
were shared among all of us. We decided
that we would not use sophisticated tools like SPSS to analyze the data, but
rather use simple tools like Microsoft Excel to generate all graphs, and charts
that we would need to make inferences. For convenience, we agreed that we would
each export the data from shared central Google sheets to our local personal
computers. This would enable each one of us to carry out any form of data manipulation
without inconveniencing others.
In conclusion, I wish to point
out places from which I collected my data. They included Student Union Building
(SUB), Student Wellness Center (1 staff), College of Engineering, and my
roommate from my apartment in University Courtyard. In total, I had a sample of
fifteen respondents, though all were Americans. We all went to different places,
though most of my colleagues could have gone to the SUB as well. Our
respondents were representative in terms of gender but not necessarily
department. Our survey was a fairly random sample of 300 respondents from Texas
Tech University. The findings of our survey are divulged in the next section,
Results.
Results
As stipulated in the previous
chapters, our survey targeted Texas Tech University stakeholders, who included
both staff and students. Our major preference was to have the highest number of
our respondents as Americans, which goal we successfully achieved. We got a total of 292 respondents, out of
whom 86% were Americans. 65% of the American respondents were from Texas. The
international respondents constituted only 14%. The number of males among only
the international respondents was higher the number of females. To be more
specific, the international male respondents were 65% and females were only
35%. On the contrary, the number of females among only the native respondents
was slightly higher than those male native respondents. Quantitatively, female constituted 52%
compared to 48% males among the native respondents. In general, there was
seemingly an equal distribution of respondents in terms of gender, with male
being higher than female by only 2%. However as earlier stipulated, of all the
American respondents, slightly more than a half of them were females.
In terms of age distribution, the
highest number of respondents lay between the ages of 18 and 22. These
constituted 62% of the total respondents. Of this category of respondents, the
majority who constituted 76% were from Texas, 21% from the other parts of the
United States but not Texas, and only 3% were international respondents of this
age category. Our results also indicated
that females constituted the highest number of this age group with a total
percentage of 53% compared to males who were slightly less than a half (47%). Further
analysis on this age group indicated that 92% were actually undergraduate
students and graduates only formed 7% of this age group. 1% of these were
working with the university. Only 1 out of 10 respondents were found to be aged
29 or more. On the contrary, our results indicated that this age group of our
respondents was dominated by the internationals, who constituted 42%. The distribution of respondents of this age
group across Texas and other parts of the United States other than Texas were
41% and 17% respectively. Our analysis of the gender distributions among this
age group indicated that it was dominated by females who constituted 53% compared
to 47% of the males. The rest of the respondents lay between 23 and 28 years of
age as shown in the figure below. These constituted 28% of the total
respondents. Like those aged between 18 and 22, there was seemingly a similar
trend of distribution in terms of citizenship, with almost half (49%) of these
respondents from Texas, 29% from other parts of the United States other than
Texas, and 22% were international respondents. This age category was largely dominated by
males who constituted 61% compared to 39% of females. Compared to the 18 to 22
age category which was dominated by undergraduate students, our results
indicated that this category (22 to 28) was largely dominated by graduate
students with a percentage of 66%. Undergraduates under this category
constituted 33%, which was quite a large number. Other respondents who included
staff only formed 1% of this age category. In general, our results indicated
that undergraduate students ranked highest to respond to our survey, constituting
67% of the total respondents and most of them were aged between 18 and 22.
Graduate students ranked second, and most of them were aged between 23 and 28. We only managed to get 1 out of 15 respondents
as a staff who largely lay between age categories of 23 to 28 and 29 or more.
These formed the smallest number amongst the three categories.
Findings
about the Hypotheses
Our survey had a total of 9
questions that covered the Black Lives Matter movement. Our structuring of the questionnaire was
guided by the different hypotheses as earlier stipulated. Our major intention
was to get opinions and feelings of Texas Tech university stakeholders about
the various aspects of this movement. The subsequent paragraphs summarize our
investigations as guided by the five hypotheses.
In our first hypothesis, we
believed that 80% of Americans would admit that they were equally not at peace
with the matter and thus bothered. However, our results clearly indicated that
the largest number of our respondents was not bothered at all by the matter.
Statistically, those not bothered at all
constituted 54% of our respondents, while those who were strongly bothered only
constituted 10%. Also, 1 out of every 29 of our respondents was not sure of
whether they were bothered by the matter or not. In general, 36% of our respondents indicated
they were bothered by the matter. These included those strongly bothered and
those who were simply bothered. This number, however, was less than those not
bothered at all. This nullified our expectation that the highest number would
be constituted by those not at peace with the matter.
Our second hypothesis was mainly
to assess what the respondents’ feelings were about the extra judicial killings
by the police. Specifically, we wanted to know if at all they thought that the
police were fair or not. This also investigated the extent to which people felt
the killings were accidental. 66% of our respondents believed that the killings
were not accidental. 13% percent of our respondents strongly believed that the
killings were not accidental, while only 6% believed that the killings were
purely accidental. This hypothesis was guided by questions 4 and 9 of the Survey.
81% of our respondents all felt
that the killings were not accidental. On the other hand, our findings on whether
there was need for a fair treatment of the blacks by the police indicated an
opinion in contrast. The percentage of
respondents not in agreement with fair treatment was higher than those who
thought there was need for a fairer treatment. More than a half of our
respondents (55%) felt there was no need for any fairer treatment of the blacks
by the police, while 45% indicated there was need for a fairer treatment.
Our study also sought to
investigate the feelings of our respondents about nature of the protest by
Collin Kaepernick, who refused to stand during the singing of the American
Anthem at the start of football games.
Initially, we generally believed that our respondents would not support
his nature of protest but would support his right to protest. From our
findings, the highest number of our respondents actually agreed and supported
Collin Kaepernick’s nature of protest. 26%, however, completely disagreed with
him, while those who were in line with our initial expectation were 25%. These
believed in the Black Lives Matter movement but not the nature of the protest.
15% of the respondents were not generally sure about this.
In our study, we also sought to
investigate the extent to which Texas Tech university stakeholders would agree
with the fact that racism was a big problem in the United States, but it could
as well be addressed. We actually believed that the largest number of our
respondents would admit that indeed racism was a big problem. Our findings on
this hypothesis clearly indicated that we were right. 72% of our respondents
all felt that racism was indeed a big problem in the United States. While 1 out
of 11 respondents were not aware of whether racism was a problem or not, 19% of
the respondents completely disagreed that racism was a problem.
Lastly we also intended to
investigate the extent to which the Black Lives Matter movement was familiar to
our respondents. We largely believed
that the movement would be to the greatest extent very familiar amongst 95% of
our respondents. The largest number of our respondents admitted they were
familiar with the matter, with 44% being very familiar and only 6% not familiar
with the matter at all. We were thus right with our initial belief about the
Black Lives Matter on this hypothesis.
Discussion
As earlier stipulated, we
conducted our study to find out the feelings of different stake holders at
Texas Tech University about different aspects of the Black Lives Matter
movement. It is inferred from the previous section, the biggest number (62%) of
our respondents were aged 18 to 22, and did not have children. This was largely
because most of us conducted our survey at Student Union building, which in
most cases could be occupied by undergraduate students. The general
observations therefore were largely influenced by the feelings of
undergraduates. As earlier mentioned, our study was guided by several
hypotheses from a number of fellow researchers. Our hypotheses categorically
stated our initial beliefs about what people would say regarding the different
aspects of the Black Lives Matter. Largely, our initial expectations stated in
our hypotheses didn’t match with the feelings of our respondents as discussed
in the following paragraphs.
In the first place, it was
completely in contrast to realize that the largest number of our respondents
was not bothered at all by the Black Lives Matter movement. Our initial belief
that the largest number of respondents would admit to being not at peace as
well, was not actually true as indicated in the results section above. Though
we had a big percentage bothered, the highest percentage was not bothered at
all. In my endeavor to justify this result, I had earlier thought that this
largely depended on age, with the view that most undergraduates largely mind
about their own academic affairs and give little or no attention to matters
that do not directly impact their lives, as opposed to those a bit older. 62%
of our respondents were aged between 18 and 22, of which 82% were either not
bothered at all or simply bothered. Only 10% of these were strongly bothered.
To be more specific, 51% were found not to be bothered at all. In comparison,
only 10% of our respondents were aged 29 or more. I expected that these were
more strongly bothered than the young ones. To my shock, the biggest percentage
(68%) was not bothered at all and only 7% of these were strongly bothered. This
thus nullified my justification above and led me to think that probably, the
highest number of those not bothered were males, since ladies tend to be more
empathetic than males. This forced me to do further analysis on our data.
Almost a half of our respondents were females. Of these, 73% were not bothered
at all and only 7% were strongly bothered.
Of the males, 56% were not bothered at all and 12% were strongly
bothered. This analysis showed the reverse of what I thought was true. The percentage among females not bothered at
all was higher than that among males. The two reasons cited were not the right
justifications for the having the biggest number not bothered at all. I
therefore concluded that since our respondents were largely students, their
major focus was on academic affairs and thus little or no attention was given
to the events of the Black Lives Matter movement unless such events (e.g. protests)
directly affect their normal duties.
Our results also indicated that
the biggest number of respondents felt that the extra-judicial killings by the
police were not simply accidental. This
result rather indicted the police for being responsible for the actions. The
fact that 81% of the respondents indicated that the killings were accidental
did not necessarily mean that the police should be blamed wholly as an
institution. A few police culprits who proliferate the matter should be put
under due jurisdiction by courts of law and brought to justice. Some of our
respondents indicated that there was need for more training of police officers,
since most of them acted out of fear even
when they were not sure that the suspect had a gun or not. The existence
of guns among the civilian communities is definitely one sole reason that acts
as a major catalyst of the killings. Though this is not acceptable to many, the
best way to promote humanity and eradicate accidental killings is by having a
gun free community with government entirely responsible for protecting the
inhabitants.
We also determined to know the
feelings of our respondents on whether the police were fair or not. Though a
big percentage of our respondents felt the extra-judicial killings were not accidental
as indicated above, the highest percentage thought police were fair. Also
emphasized in the results’ section, this showed an opinion in contrast.
However, it follows that the biggest percentage of police officers were
actually fair and would not be a threat to anyone’s life irrespective of
gender, race, religious belief, or political affiliations. A few police
officers who committed such atrocities should not endear us to generalize that
the police were not fair. We are can therefore conclusively say that in
general, the police are fair.
Since our study was largely
dominated by American respondents in accordance with our target, it was pretty
obvious that the highest number would not agree with the nature of the protest
by Collin Kaepernick. However, as indicated in the results, only 25% agreed
with him but did not support his nature of protest. Added to those who did not
agree with him completely, 51% percent did not generally support his nature of
protest. However almost a half of the respondents agreed with him and supported
his nature of protest. This can be attributed to the fact that to most people,
peaceful coexistence and respect for human rights that are the core building
blocks of humanity matter more than respect for symbolism which can’t inflict
direct torture and suppression to human life or be a threat to security,
political, and economic systems of any country.
In our study to investigate the
extent to which respondents thought that racism was a big problem in the United
States, our results indicated that our initial belief was true, that racism was
indeed a big problem in the United States. This was mainly due to empirical
evidence of a series of extra judicial killings by the police targeting the
blacks. If the same killings were happening to all other races at the same
rate, one would be right to deduce that the killings were an indicator of
inadequate and ineffective training acquired by the police. Precisely, the respondents were right to feel
that indeed racism was a big problem in the United States. However, 19% of our
respondents did not agree that racism was a problem. Others felt that it was
not a problem until President Obama investigated it. I wouldn’t immediately
deduce that leaving it uninvestigated and thus happening in silence meant the
problem did not exist. However, if one identified symptoms of a likely disease
in the body and decided to ignore it leaving the disease to be suppressed by
body immunity and positive attitude, one would not necessarily eliminate the
disease from his/her body. It would later on manifest in rather a severe manner
that can result in fatal consequences. As it is said, prevention is better than
cure.
Lastly, our study revealed that
only 6% of our respondents were not familiar with the Black Lives Matter
movement. Perhaps these were Internationals who possibly had not spent long in
the United States. Otherwise, almost all our respondents were familiar with the
matter. This was due to the fact that a series of events have occurred in the
United States in line with the Black Lives Matter. Such events include
shootings, protests, and court cases.
Conclusion
Our
survey was largely dominated by undergraduate students and thus we did not
generally have a very good representative sample based on level, and different
majors were not put into consideration. However, our sample was representative
of gender. Our study indicated that most of respondents were not actually
bothered by the Black Lives Matter movement. Others thought that it was in a
wrong direction due to its violent nature during the protest. Our results could
have in one way or the other been influenced by the way our questions were
phrased. But largely, we had interesting findings and our major goal was
achieved.
Appendix: Survey Questions for Black Lives Matter
1. Do you think police stereotype African-Americans with crime
more than any other race?
___ Yes
___ No ___ don’t know/not sure
2. How familiar are you with the motives of the #BlackLivesMatter
movement?
___ very ___ a little ___ not
much ___ not at all
3. Do people of color need to be treated and approached more
fairly by police in the USA?
___ Yes ___
No _____ don’t know/not sure
4. Do you think that #BlackLivesMatter movement is moving in the
right direction?
___ Yes ___
No if not explain why?
5. Do you think racism is a big problem in the
U.S.? ___ Yes ___
No ___ not sure/don’t know
6. Do you support Colin Kaepernick’s Anthem Protest?
Do you agree or not with him?
___ Agree & support ___ believe in BLM but not
Anthem protest ____ No
7. Do you think #BlackLives Matter movement will
encourage violence against the police?
___ Yes ___ No ___ not sure
8. Some people argue that the Black Lives matter movement is
overly exaggerated by media and thus not necessary. Do you think this movement
by black activists is not necessary and that it should stop [
a] Agree [b] Strongly agree [c] Disagree [d] Strongly
disagree [e] Not sure
9. Several media have reported loss of many black lives that have
occurred in due confrontation with Police. To what extent do you think this is
accidental? (5-purely accidental)
[ a ] 1 [b]
2 [c] 3 [d]
4 [e] 5
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