The “all lives matter” people who object to “black lives matter” … do they object to the silent, preceding “only” that the rest of us can’t read? Do the same people say “all vitamins are important” when they’re told “getting enough vitamin C is important to your health”?
Obviously this is a rhetorical question. Our common humanity means that “all lives matter” is a given. If you object to the notion that black lives matter, you object to the notion that all lives matter. It’s not treating one race as special, it is merely acknowledging that racism exists, that young black people are being killed by racist white cops at a disproportionate scale.
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