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In reply to the discussion: OMG!!!. Watching Bloomberg, Bill and Melinda Gates along with Warren Buffet say "ALL LIVES MATTER" [View all]brush
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We live in the United States. Everyone who calls themselves even somewhat progressive knows that white lives have always been valued (matter) more than black lives or there would never have been enslavement, lynchings, the KKK, sharecropping, redlining, jim crow . . . and I could go on and on and on.
"Black lives matter" is a huge, life and death issue in the AA community and should not be co-opted and thus, minimized by tone death allies using "all lives matter".
Besides, it came from racist right wingers trying to take the strength and focus from the "black lives matter" movement.
If you are really allies, get a clue by taking our word on this as we feel strongly about it.
And please stop whitesplaining how we should feel about it, and how, condescendingly, "all lives matter" is a better and more inclusive term like white lives haven't always mattered.