Black Lives Matter

[Jerrymooney]

I can’t always agree with the tactics that the Black Lives Matter movement has employed but the tactic of negating them with the statement All Lives Matter is detestable. Yes, all lives do matter and that is something that people can agree on as a universal tenant. To say that only some lives matter would be completely asinine. So yes, all lives do matter.

The point of Black Lives Matter was to highlight the injustice and inequity in the current system. No one would or should argue that if you ask a Black Lives Matter member if all lives matter, they would say yes. That some people utilized the statement All Lives Matter in the first place, was a move to discount the very important point of Black Lives Matter. It was using Fox News logic to attack an important issue.




http://www.zenruption.com/politicsareneverzen/4/5/all-lives-do-matter-but-the-terms-recent-use-says-that-some-matter-more

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. And when they say "all lives matter", they are lying.

In fact most lives, if you look at world population, dont matter to them.

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. Sadly, this is true from the birth of this nation until the present. n/t

[redstatebluegirl]

2. The All Lives Matters people offend me and I'm white

No parent should have to have "the talk" with their kids telling them how to not get killed by the police. Since the racists in our country are back out in the open something has to be done. I don't blame BLM for doing what they are doing.

Like you I don't always agree with their methods, but I give them a break knowing what they are trying to do.

[rock]

4. Well, I for one thank you for the explanation

I'm an old white guy and when I was first exposed to "Black Lives Matter", I was confused. I didn't realize what the point was (for as you point out "all lives matter" and until your explanation didn't know. Thanks and sorry for sometimes being slow.