Black Lives Matter -- white supremacy, patriarchy and homophobia causes of Orlando attack. NOT Islam

[MrScorpio]

67. I'm also a person of color, as were most of the victims of that massacre

I find it interesting that, out of all the gay venues in Florida that Mateen could have chosen to attack, he picked one that was patronized by mostly black and brown people, on "Latin Night" of all nights.

Just because Mateen was Pakistani, that doesn't mean that he was immune to harboring the very same pro-white supremacist/anti-black and brown bias that just about every single person in this country has been immersed in. I understand that, in America, even being a person of color oneself does not make it mutually exclusive from harboring such biases.

The thing about being black and brown in America, we never have the luxury of disregarding the relevance of our own skin as it pertains to any situation we find ourselves in. We know what it means to be black and brown in this country, regardless of how much the beneficiaries of the white supremacist power structure go out of their way to inform us that it really doesn't matter.

Of course, Mateen attacked a gay club because he wanted to kill gay people. That's not being questioned here. But he chose to murder gay people of color... And much of white America turned its back on those gay and mostly POC victims to castigate and fear monger an entire religion.