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forjusticethunders

(1,151 posts) Sun Jul 10, 2016, 11:46 PM Jul 2016

All Lives Matter is a wonderful sentiment... (Part 2)

But the Declaration of Independence held "all" being created equal as "self-evident'. That didn't exactly work out too well for us, did it?

Black people CANNOT assume that "all" includes us.

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All Lives Matter is a wonderful sentiment... (Part 2) (Original Post) forjusticethunders Jul 2016 OP

All includes white male property/landowners bravenak Jul 2016 #1

It should be taken as 'black lives matter' (too). The 'too' is implied applegrove Jul 2016 #2

bravenak

(34,648 posts)

1. All includes white male property/landowners

Reply to forjusticethunders (Original post)

Sun Jul 10, 2016, 11:48 PM

Jul 2016

The rest of us were not real people

applegrove

(119,141 posts)

2. It should be taken as 'black lives matter' (too). The 'too' is implied

Reply to forjusticethunders (Original post)

Mon Jul 11, 2016, 12:42 AM

Jul 2016

by the history of black lives not being as important as white lives.

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