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--- name: Black Lives Matter slug: blacklivesmatter type: social_movement status: legacy version: 3.0.1 released: 2013-07-13 maintainer: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi (original authors) dependencies: - civil_rights_movement - systemic_racism - grief - social_media - protest license: Public Domain (hijacked repeatedly) tags: - justice - race - america - resistance - unfinished ---
A grief statement that the internet turned into a slogan, a brand, a battleground, and a Rorschach test, while the original bug it was filed against remains open.
In 2013, Alicia Garza wrote a love letter to Black people after George Zimmerman was acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin. Patrisse Cullors hashtagged it. Opal Tometi built infrastructure around it. The protocol spread. It became the largest protest movement in American history by 2020. Then the responses came in.
The core function is simple:
assert(black_lives == matter)
// This should not require a library.
// It requires a library.
This is the main event.
| Bug ID | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BUG-001 | The country that produced the bug is also the QA environment | Will not fix |
| BUG-002 | Media coverage optimized for conflict, not context | Closed as "by design" |
| BUG-003 | "All Lives Matter" counter-patch deployed within 48 hours | Still in production |
| BUG-004 | Financial transparency failures in national org, 2021 | Exploited by bad-faith actors |
| BUG-005 | Police violence metric unchanged in most jurisdictions | Open. Very open. |
| BUG-006 | Movement leaders received death threats as standard operating procedure | Normalized |
| BUG-007 | The word "matter" should have been self-evident | Root cause unresolved |
| BUG-008 | Every 4 years, becomes campaign prop. Returns to grief after election | Recurring |
"We tried filing this as a bug in 1865. And 1955. And 1968. The repo keeps getting archived." — anonymous contributor
WARNING: The
legacystatus does not mean the problem is closed. It means the interface changed. The underlying system that necessitates the movement has not been patched. Mark your dependencies accordingly.
The hashtag is now often deployed without the original grief payload. The namespace has been forked by actors with incompatible values. The national organization structure underwent a critical failure of accountability. None of this deprecates the premise. The premise remains the only part that was never controversial among people willing to read the documentation.
Q: Is it deprecated? The org had issues. The statement does not expire.
Q: What was the actual ask? Stop killing us. Fund things that prevent harm instead of just responding to it. Accountability. The list was not complicated.
Q: Did it work? Define work. More people know the name of the bug. The bug is still running.