Racism aggravates chaos in Western societies

Segregation as an official policy may have ended in the US in the 1960s, but systemic racism continues to plague US society to this day. Racism may be an "American disease", but it is not confined to the United States and it inflicts the whole of the West.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the "Black Lives Matter" movement. An international social movement, Black Lives Matter began in the US in 2013 and is dedicated to fighting racism and anti-black violence, especially in the form of police brutality.

Its name signals condemnation of the unjust killings of black people by the police (black people are far more likely to be killed by the police than white people in the US) and the demand that society value the lives and humanity of the black people as much as it values those of the white people. Black Lives Matter was founded in 2013 by three black community organizers after George Zimmerman, a man of German and Peruvian descent, was acquitted on charges stemming from his fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in Sanford, Florida, in February 2012.