Nice explanation from “Rev. Robin.”
I wish we could get to a country where #blacklivesmatter and #thinblueline were not seen as incompatible...a country where police officers and community could not be used as separate terms ..... a country where black lives matter was read as black lives matter too...
Read the rest here.How the black lives matter movement came to be understood by some as "black lives matter therefore white lives don't matter as much," is not at all surprising. In fact, it kind of proves the premise. If black lives did truly matter-systematically and culturally- I kind of doubt that the all lives matter would have sprung up. Can you imagine placing a "breast cancer research" bumper sticker on your car only to find it vandalized to read "all cancer research?" Or how about "soccer mom" being replaced by "all sports mom?" Of course not. Then why do we read the black lives matter as proclaiming that other lives don't matter? Could it be that black lives matter is still, sadly, a counter-cultural claim in 2015?
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