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In reply to the discussion: Some people want to de-racialize "Black Lives Matter" to "All Lives Matter" [View all]BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)81. yep. overly scrupulous.
kind of a melting pot mindset....but equality and respect for Other people doesn't reduce to assimilation. ESPECIALLY the kind of forced assimilation pushed by the folks saying "You should shut up about YOUR unique experience, your history.
I want to see something more like our grouphug-emojie. Each one's different, but all facing each other, holding hands in unity.
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Some people want to de-racialize "Black Lives Matter" to "All Lives Matter" [View all]
ellenrr
Dec 2014
OP
And what's really sad is, in that regard.....(apologize for the off-topic semi-rant, but)
AverageJoe90
Dec 2014
#17
And what's really sad is the anti-GamerGate side wasn't entirely innocent either
XemaSab
Dec 2014
#47
Did you really take a thread about police violence against black people and hijack it
LeftyMom
Dec 2014
#80
No one brought up any other subject. Just your usual and unending campaign to distort
Number23
Dec 2014
#100
I'm not sure why you're having an issue understanding that.....no offense meant.
AverageJoe90
Dec 2014
#105
Pretty much what I was thinking, Blanche. There's some anti-choice group that co-opts ....
Hekate
Dec 2014
#13
The racist cannot comprehend people of color except in relation to white people.
Odin2005
Dec 2014
#18
And "normal" is often defined as what is favorable to the Capitalist ruling class.
Odin2005
Dec 2014
#116
Chris Rock was right when he said black progress has mostly been because of whites...
randome
Dec 2014
#25
Obviously all lives matter. And no one is saying it is ok if people who aren't Black are killed by
ellenrr
Dec 2014
#30
"somehow we have to make both points". Yep, that's it in a nutshell.......
socialist_n_TN
Dec 2014
#57
Ending the federal programs that militarize police is a very concrete demand.
woo me with science
Dec 2014
#65
I'm kinda afraid to ask, it sounds like it should be somebody I know of, but who is Kelly Thomas? nt
ellenrr
Dec 2014
#68
Seems a large majority of people don't want to face up to America's racism problem
Matariki
Dec 2014
#70
"ALM" is good on its own--but if one says it in response to "BLM" *then* it's an effort
MisterP
Dec 2014
#74
Were not allowed to be angry or mourn. were not allowed to speak against injustice.
SummerSnow
Dec 2014
#102