Stop Saying “All Lives Matter”. PLEASE.
I just need to put this out there: When you say, “All Lives Matter” you are only perpetuating the racism against black people--whether that is your intent or not.
Here is why: OBVIOUSLY all lives matter (except terrorists or members of Westboro Baptist), and for the past few centuries, white people have made it no secret that their lives matter. That is evident every time you turn on the news. Am I disagreeing that white lives matter? No. I am white. My family is white. I think very much that white lives matter. But since everyone else seems to agree with me, there is clearly no point in starting a campaign about it. That’s like raising money for oxygen awareness. It’s not necessary to say the least.
Do black lives matter? Fuck yes. And are black people being discriminated against STILL TO THIS DAY? Yeah. News flash fellow crackers: We’ve been lied to. My entire childhood, year after year, we learned about slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, lynchings, MLK Jr. and Rosa Parks. And I have always had a burning rage inside me learning about these injustices that “happened in the past”. But we were lied to people. These issues did not die out in the 60′s and 70′s. They are alive and well, and unless we all stand together AGAINST HATE of all kinds, it won’t ever go away.
So I am not saying that Hispanic lives don’t matter, but they have their own problems right now, like Donald Trump... And police officers’ lives matter also, just for the record (again, unless they are also a member of Westboro Baptist). Let us all remember that police officers put their own lives on the line every day to protect us and keep the peace. We can’t let the few corrupt and/or racist, power hungry cops give the rest of them a bad rep. Just like you apparently blind and deaf right-wing crazies can’t lump every black person in with a few thugs. I certainly wouldn’t want people thinking I’m some inbred trailer trash just because I’m white. That stereotypical way of thinking is the tip of the racism iceberg.
Everyone is their own person, and whether you’re black or white, LGBTQ or straight, most of us want the same thing: Equality. And since society has already agreed that white lives matter, we need to lift our black community up so that “Black Lives Matter” will be the last stand we have to take against such horrifying injustices.
