makes finger guns at you
(don't call the police on me for that please)

too late already called 911

dang it
gotta put my hands in the air
then my feets
then my whole body

Black lives matter TOO, not black lives matter ONLY. That's probably the most succinct way of explaining what it's supposed to mean that I've seen.

But the sad thing is many of the people who think it's a racist-against-white-people phrase won't be convinced by this because they want it to be racist, because it furthers their own prejudices to think that way. Still, there are always going to be those well-meaning but ignorant folks who could use a bit of education on the subject!

yeah, it goes against their victim complexes to assume that black lives matter is after equality rather than superiority

I mean these are (largely) the same people who call gay rights "special rights" instead of "equal rights," so seems right up their alley.

Decided to respond after hearing what feels like 50 million police brutality reports...

But honestly, it's not about the term itself anymore than the term Social Justice Warrior sounds disgusting. It's the lies, the failure to acknowledge the other side of the coin, the rioting before the gathering of facts are even properly organized, and worst of all, the response to alleged brutality with their own brutality, hurting everyone else around them and even killing them. That's why Black Lives Matter is considered horrible. Based on these accounts, BLM could even be considered the definition of "terrorists".

I don't know why I care about a small post like this. I guess I'm just tired of all the BS politics I'm hearing. Every day, there's actually more than one thing going on. I just wish people would at least acknowledge the facts before ever deciding that it's irrelevant and that emotions must take over in place. Maybe you understand where I'm coming from, maybe not. ^.^;

I'm not sure i understand where you're coming from

black lives matter is a movement, not an organized group with defined goals and a clear agenda. so when people commit atrocities in their name, it's not much different than people committing atrocities in the name of Christianity or something. it's bad and it makes everyone involved look bad, but if the majority judged christianity for the actions of the crusaders, or the inquisition, christianity would be considered a terrorist group.

granted, i don't know what people are talking about most of the time when they talk about BLM as "violent". They get angry, rowdy, and disrespectful (and personally i find it hard to blame them - unless you have zero connections to the news, it's almost impossible to go through even just a week without hearing about yet another unarmed black person who was shot or killed by police. Even if one believes that every single one of those stories is made up just to help blacks look like victims so they can get ahead of whites (which is a pretty racist belief that a lot of people seem to have anyway), the point is that in general BLM supporters feel that blacks are treated unfairly and brutally by the systems in place in america, but nobody tries to understand that they feel like just going outside is a danger to their very lives simply because a cop or a "concerned citizen" could assume they're dangerous just because of their skin color.

when i was in high school i totally thought that blacks and whites were treated 100% equally by the government, and police, and americans in general. so naturally I assumed that any time a story of an unarmed black man being shot dead popped up, it was clear that the victim was a "thug" and the officer whose camera had never been activated and had been observed harassing a suspect who had his hands up and wasn't resisting must've had a good reason for doing so. I also thought that there were actually blacks out there sacrificing their lives just to make cops look bad. i was a pretty awful person.
there wasn't really a clearly defined turning point in my life; i guess just over time common sense began to kick in, as well as compassion for others, no matter how different they were from me.

Sorry if you didn't understand where I was coming from. ^.^;

I mean I'm aware of the fact that there tends to be bad apples in every crowd and movement. I just never entertained the idea of that kind of thing for BLM, but I suppose my feelings aren't really important in this issue.

I tend to watch content from Youtubers that have collected information on all these instances of police brutality. I forget if "Sargon of Akkad" has brought this up, but I know that "Steven Crowder" has, assessing every single case up to the point of the video that was made. He can be rather snarky at times, but I know he means well when he goes by the principle of simply waiting for the facts. Yeah, I don't think I can blame the blacks for feeling the need to respond to this chaos, but I still fear that the emotions are triumphing over reason, at least in terms of actions. It's fine if an individual feels that this kind of thing upsets them, but they have to be careful of how to show that they're upset. Also, looking back on Steven Crowder's video, he did find out that at least some of the cases were legitimate, so I hope that does clarify that there's no ill-intent for racism. And yeah, I can agree that at this point, demands for understanding are near mandatory. I feel like the only way this can be resolved is by working to rebuild the bridges, but I shoud pray that this will happen sooner than later.

Oh, and I'm glad that you became open to grasp beyond your assumptions. I don't know what may have influenced those thoughts, but again, sometimes emotions can take over. I know that things like this aren't always for malicious intent, but for the defense of ourselves and others. In a way, that sounds twisted given that it's a segregated kind of protection, but it still shows some sense of right to the individual lost in foolish thinking.

Not that I truly justify your mindset, but I know we all need some grace here and there. Hopefully, this entire conflict going on with police brutality comes to a close soon, so that we can make room for forgiveness.

Not sure if that helps clarify my points. If I changed the things I said before, I'll just say that I instinctively corrected myself. x3;