A lesson on ACAB and BLM

a brief history of ACAB

Everyone is making videos about it and many are confused about the saying and want to know what it means. The acronym ACAB has been rolling through the US protest movement, from graffiti to signs to streetwear to music and art. Influencers are making videos about it and saying it repeatedly. It’s already on multiple buildings and songs the saying acab means “All Cops are Bastards.” But you may also see its numeric alternate, “1312,” with numbers substituted for letters. The term is a Rich, controversial history and one that can tell us about protest, police, and the power dynamic between a state and its citizens. The exact origins of the term remains unknown but it was emerged in England in the first half of the twentieth century saying “All Coppers are Bastards” at first and was used by workers on strike in the 1940s. James Poulter at Vice unearthed some video footage from 1958 of some lads belting the phrase on the street. ACAB took its modern meaning(the one today) in 1970 when the Daily Mirror ran the phrase as a headline. The article had explained that the police picked up a teen who had the phrase on his jacket after copying it from a Hells Angel he saw on the street. The kid claimed he thought ACAB stood for “All Canadians are Bums” and not “All Cops are Bastards.” But got off with a 5 GBP fine, but the headline made the acronym a byword for a younger generation, sick of getting pushed around by cops and there unfair grounds and rules. This was a turning point for the alarmism the phrase that still inspires today but the panic had the unintentional effect of launching ACAB into the vernacular of the burgeoning punk movement and in punk music,

ACAB found its spiritual home in the pink era. The pink era then carried ACAB around the globe where it became a watchword for many anarchist and anti-authoritarian movements from New York to Indonesia. One of the most famous example is the song “ACAB” by the London band the 4-Skins (my favorite band :flushed: )but there is plenty of more song with the saying in it that are popular. Century’s has ed since the Daily Mirror headline and ACAB has proven flexible, not always in good ways: it’s embodied ideas of varied nuance and intensity, from a casual expression of rebellion to nuanced anarchist thought to more ominous skinhead ideology. It’s counted as a subject of hate speech litigation in . The Anti-Defamation League currently lists ACAB as a hate symbol/abbreviation, but notes that “it should be carefully judged in the context in which it appears,”as it’s been a watchword for racist and anti-racist groups. Now the saying ACAB had been reaching a new peak in popularity. And it’s not just for pinks and skinheads using anymore. Many tiktok videos that have the tag ACAB on it have been viewed more that’s over half a billion times. White it may seem that acab had emerged from nowhere, ACAB has popped up on occasion in the broader American anti-police brutality movement in the past. Back in 2018 graffiti appears on a billboard in Portland, Oregon that called attention to police brutality and ed Black Lives Matter. “Portland, is your white fragility showing?” the sign asked. “Yes it is,” an inspired tagger added. “ACAB.”

a brief history of BLM

The saying BLM started as a social media phenomenon that arose in the wake of the 2013

acquittal ruling of George Zimmerman, who had been charged with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida. In response to Zimmerman’s acquittal, three black community activists in California developed and disseminated the hashtag #blacklivesmatter on Twitter. What was once a social media movement now have birth to a numeral amount loosely organized protests in response to the police-related deaths of black men such as Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, and Eric Garner in New York City. And many more. BLM quickly gained national and international attention, even winning the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize. From the beginning, public response to BLM has been a mixed bag. Some Americans embraced it as a much-needed social reform movement. Others argued that BLM stereotyped police officers and cast premature judgments on police-related killings, thereby encouraging violence against police and hatred of whites. Some civil rights leaders ed BLM; others rebuked it or expressed deep reservations. A number of Christian leaders critiqued the movement for bying the black church, rejecting a biblical view of gender and sexuality, and promoting a form of identity politics that undermines the common good.

In its initial stages, BLM was spotlighted for protesting the deaths of black men at the hands of police officers After Zimmerman’s acquittal, black LGBTQ activist Alicia Garza penned a social media post that included the phrase “black lives matter.” Later that day, Garza’s friend and black queer activist, Patrisse Cullors, created the hashtag #blacklivesmatter. The hashtag went viral and, in the following days, a third black queer activist, Opal Tometi, ed Garza and Cullors to envision the beginnings of what would become the Black Lives Matter organization. The black live matter movement caught even more momentum in the wake of the 2015 Ferguson, MO, protests over the shooting death of Michael Brown. In the wake of Brown’s death demonstrators from across the nation protested for more than three months in counting. Garza, Cullors, and Tometi organized a “Freedom Ride to Ferguson,” reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement’s freedom rides to various cities in the deep South to protest racial discrimination.

My opinion on ACAB and BLM

i acab because i believe all cops are bastardized, because they work under a corrupt system, and the system needs to be updated. all cops are bastardized. not all are bad people. but they are all bastardized.

I agree all lives do matter but when has a white person been targeted in a cop on citizen attack? When has a white person been KILLED for there color of skin and nationality i BLM and will continue to it from this day on.

ill be linking a post where there are petitions you can sign a little change can be a big one for these people please sign if you can

Edit: please Do not donate to change.org the money goes to the website not the cause just sign petitions not donate #ACAB