Commons:Categories for discussion/2013/09/Category:African American martyrs
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Not an appropriate category: Yes, in common parlance, these people are often referred to as "martyrs". But the parent cat is for religious martyrs, i.e. people who have been designated as such by a religion. I understand the sentiment with respect to people who were killed for their role in the Civil Rights struggle, but they should be categorized as "Murdered civil rights activists", or something along those lines. Cgingold (talk) 02:24, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
Agree --Skeezix1000 (talk) 16:07, 9 September 2013 (UTC)- Agree I agree that the category needs renaming, but some people became civil rights symbols in death but not in life. For example, what category would Trayvon Martin fit in? Was he a murdered civil rights activist? Was Emmett Till? And yet there is definitely a reason to group these two people together with, say, Medgar Evers and MLK. --Kenmayer (talk) 18:35, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
- Neither Till nor Martin would be martyrs in the plain meaning of that word. We might need a category for race-related murders or victims of racially-motivated violence.--Skeezix1000 (talk) 18:57, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
- Support, although i just argued above to allow Category:Martyrdom to include images related to any form of martyrdom, in this case, individuals not identified by the catholic church as martyrs should not be called martyrs here, as thats not neutral. a file of a newspaper front page (copyright free of course), with the headline "King martyred" would be acceptable under my idea for martyrdom, but not much else, unless the file specifically calls attention to it. race related murders (under some such name) would be good.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:32, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Deleted: per discussion. --ℯxplicit 11:25, 26 March 2019 (UTC)