All Lives Matter

[Deleted User 4520]

Please STOP with "Black Lives Matter". To me that slogan is extremely racist. Why not use "All Lives Matter"? It doesn't matter who you are, your skin color, race, sex, nationality, etc. These things can happen to anyone and everyone, not just the black community. If people want to protest, fine, I get it. But when the riots and looting start, that is a whole new game and becomes criminal.

[Deleted User 15342]

You’re absolutely correct Sir “Black Lives Matter” is very racist.

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It refers to unarmed black male motorists who - over decades - have been voluminously murdered by white law enforcement officers.

However - that modern day phenomenon is part of a longer history in The United States - where black slaves were legally animals instead of humans, and later through Jim Crow and beyond - systemically - regarded as inferior to whites.

So “Black Lives Matter” is appropriate in that historical context.

Only racists refuse to admit it.

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It refers to unarmed black male motorists who - over decades - have been voluminously murdered by white law enforcement officers.

However - that modern day phenomenon is part of a longer history in The United States - where black slaves were legally animals instead of humans, and later through Jim Crow and beyond - systemically - regarded as inferior to whites.

So “Black Lives Matter” is appropriate in that historical context.

Only racists refuse to admit it.

I don’t have a racist bone in my body but All Lives Matter works for me better than Black Lives Matter... treat everybody equally. ALL of them.

[Deleted User 4520]

"Black Lives Matter" to me insinuates that other lives don't matter and only black lives are important. That's my take on the slogan. Hence, "All Lives Matter" seem more appropriate.