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The same people who bat away "Black Lives Matter" with cries of "ALL Lives matter!" reveal themselves to not really care about all lives at all.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)At this time our attention needs to be directed at those who suffer the most and experience heinous racism and intense bigotry. Because even though all lives matter to me I recognize that others do not feel the same
JI7
(89,173 posts)Anybody
(2 posts)"Black Lives Matter" was a way of drawing attention to a problem that needs attention.
Answering that phrase with "All Lives Matter" is equivalent to:
Joe: "Hey, man. I got a problem."
Frank: "Everybody's got problems."
Skittles
(152,964 posts)but they don't give a DAMN about migrant children in cages
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)brer cat
(24,401 posts)Even the lives of innocent children don't matter if their skin is brown or black. As much as it sickens and disgusts us, they wear their white supremacy mantle with pride and arrogance.
mia
(8,356 posts)The kids in cages deserve our attention right now.
Initech
(99,912 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)patphil
(6,029 posts)It's really "All Republican lives matter".
As long as they work, stay healthy, and vote republican.
JoeOtterbein
(7,697 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I hope that smarts!