Member Since: 10/18/2010
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This needs to stop!
This is, by far, one of the most insensitive statements I've ever had the displeasure of seeing spread across the internet! People who use this term: do you honestly think this bears repeating? Do you honestly believe we, as a culture and species, don't understand that all lives are important on this planet? You think you're making some overall worldly message by saying this, but what you really are doing is showcasing your ignorance to the cause.
Not once for the BLM movement did we say other lives don't matter or only our lives matter: we're saying our lives matter just as much as anyone else's! When you're saying "all lives matter," what you're really saying is "I don't want to make this a race thing, but I want to seem like I'm interested in and helping the issue…" NEWS FLASH: you're not interested, you're misinformed, and you're not helping at all; you are single-handedly making it ten times harder to connect with the real issue at hand! We're not fighting for domination or popularity, we're fighting for equality!
People who use this statement need to understand we're undermined and unappreciated all over the planet, not just in the U.S. We're trying to teach the world that you can't continue to treat a race, no matter the nationality, like this! Our society has appropriated us, victimized us, slaughtered us, and enslaved us, and the moment we lift a hand to say "STOP! We've had enough!" everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon like they had no clue!
Well, here's your wake up call/TL;DR: you can't save the world by continuing to ignore it! Black lives matter just as much as everything else's does! Stop using a term that has no ground to stand on, and educate yourself on our cause, please!
#BlackLivesMatter
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