Thanks to J.Lo, yes.

Not you acting like BLM is the reason the country is divided and racial tensions have risen...

As long as white people remain the majority and stupid people still exist, good causes will always "fail."

50 years after the MLK speech, and we're here...

It has nothing to do with the movement, but the people...

What even?

The divide was always there, people are just appearing more vocal.

It's failed because it has only addressed one issue : race.

Yet, the reality is that the biggest determinant in whether you're likely to be shot by police is gender. This chart from mid-2015 shows that women account for less than 5% of overall shootings :

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...4a70466fd.html

You're more likely to be shot by police if you're a man of any race than if you're a black woman.

Oddly enough, people seem to consider it natural that men should be shot so much more than women considering their crime rates are much higher.

It makes people talk/become more aware so no it has not failed

no all lives matter failed

no

Maybe you should reword the OP then

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it seems to have divided the country, entrenched racial divisions

But this has been going on for DECADES. The execution, racial profiling, and excessive force the police use against minorities has been going on forever, sadly, and has only steadily grown. Do you remember the Rodney King case and the outrage and riots that sparked afterwards?

And a "damn hashtag" has not created more division. And this Country is never in harmony until a tragic event happens (i.e. 9/11) then we're divided again until the next tragedy strikes.

afsld;; No.

It's working cause it's getting people talking. Martin Luther King would be proud.

His Letter from Birmingham Jail:

You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.

My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

Like I said, people are just more vocal. It was more subdued but by bringing it up people are more actively vocal on both sides.

It's meant to provoke a reaction and that has caused many discussions already, just cause y'all don't see it on Twitter doesn't mean it isn't happening. People talk about it irl and on news shows, etc

Highly doubt that considering it's been trying to be brought attention to for many years but it still is an issue that has to be fought for, making it "more comfortable" when nothing is comfortable about the issues at hand didn't work.

No.

It hasn't divided anyone. Anyone who doesn't get it, who thinks its biased for black people, who feel oppressed by it was already divided to begin with.