(06-23-2020, 04:37 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(06-23-2020, 11:35 AM)TJBender Wrote: Until black lives matter, all lives, by definition, do not matter. I don't get what's so hard for people to understand about that.

ALL lives matter.  By definition that includes black lives, Hispanic lives, white lives, etc.  I don't get why it's so hard for people to understand that.

The violence, destroying both public and private property, defacing monuments, etc. is no longer about a police officer with his knee on a black criminal's neck.

You're right. It's about hundreds of years of minorities in the US getting the occasional pat on the back before going back to being pushed aside, sometimes gently and sometimes by force. And yeah, because it's been said on here before, I am allowed to be white and still think there's something wrong with this picture. You want all lives to matter? Then black lives have to matter as much as any other lives do, and the US has spent its entire existence demonstrating that they don't think that's the case.

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