Quote:This is the last thing I'm worried about, which group politicians pander to over a stupid phrase.

 

How about we focus on the real issue, the profit prison system being funded by a corrupt government enforcing an unconstitutional prohibition of substances. End the unconstitutional prohibition on substances and for profit prison system and the whole problem is gone overnight. But that would just give more credence to the voices screaming the state is the problem to start with. 

 

Exactly.

 

Quote:Yes shocking because they understand the movement and don't try to minimize/dismiss/demonize it because party base. 

 

I'll assume you understand the point the "black lives matter movement" is trying to make overall. The point isn't that all lives don't matter. It's that they view society as treating black lives as mattering less. 

 

The movement is about trying to raise one group of people up because they are supposedly treated unfairly by law enforcement officers.  The movement was founded because supposedly Michael Brown was "unjustly" killed.  It doesn't matter that he was a thug and the evidence proved that his death was justified.

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