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Originally posted by blasianlove
Its a silly concept since its obvious that only black hetero male lives matter. Black women and children are still being murdered by black men at a far larger rate than black men are being murdered by police.
Maybe if they made it specific to Police murdering black men it would be easier to get behind the movement. They made it too broad.
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That's not really true, though. I had the opportunity to see Alicia Garza, co-founder of the BLM movement, speak and she talked
a lot about black women, about black queer people, and more. There's so much more to BLM than just "police murdering black men," and it would be really counter-productive to limit the movement's scope to focus on just that.
I think that the social / mainstream medias and allies of the BLM movement do focus disproportionately on police brutality towards young black men, but that's only because it is the issue that started the movement (in the aftermath of Zimmerman's acquittal) and because it's the most "hot button" issue right now (just look at how this election season basically uses a "police vs BLM" rhetoric). There are prominent voices in the movement (Forza, Sandra Bland's mother Geneva Reed-Veal) speaking about police brutality towards women, the lives of trans black Americans, the school-to-prison pipeline, access to education, domestic abuse, and so on.
