Saying 'All Lives Matter' is the new wedge issue. Now that the confederate flag is gone

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40. That's a little better

Clearly justice is meted out differently based on race in this country and black people (along with many other people of color) have to deal with issues that white people generally don't face. The frustration of living in a society where it feels like black lives do not matter understandably would lead to a movement to spread the idea that black lives do matter.

That being said, the 911 phone call analogy is stupid and not at all illustrative.

I do think that there are some people who take "BLM" to mean that non-black lives don't matter and have the knee-jerk "all lives matter" response and thus totally miss the point. However, I think there are other people (of all races) who promote the idea that all lives matter to try to emphasize the shared humanity of all people in a positive way (incorporating the same message as many in the BLM movement).

I took issue with this particular article because, first of all, I think it's annoying for a young white guy to explain what the BLM movement is about in a fairly snarky and patronizing way, and also, as I mentioned, because I think the analogy is quite poor, to put it mildly.

Your analogy is definitely better.