InChrist
Free4ever
I get the point of Black Lives Matter and understand the context. I recognize that some, even many blacks are treated unfairly. Then again many aren’t. I know there are a lot of black people who are opposed to the BLM organization and who consider that it creates more divisiveness, even long time civil rights activists.Then you recognize that blacks are being treated unfairly, and selective prejudices against them which threaten their very lives and livelihoods? Do you recognize that black lives matter in this context?
That is what the slogan was intended to convey, saying "look over here. Black lives matter too," because everyone is acting as if they don't.
This is not hard to understand. There's no need to think it isn't saying only their lives matter and not yours. To say "all lives matter" in response, misses the point. It wipes it away to ignore the problem again where we need to be reminded again.
So I stand on the premise that all lives matter because if people lived like all lives matter then everyone, whatever color, would be treated fairly and respectfully.