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But doesn't Black Lives Matter lose part of its credibility if it demands awareness from white people about police brutality against black people, but doesn't show the same awareness and outrage when it hits whites?
I realize Black Lives Matter is not exclusive as in, "Only Black Lives Matter" or "Black Lives Matter More". And I realize police brutality tends to hit blacks harder than whites due to deeply rooted and widely accepted/tolerated racism. I realize that makes the problem more difficult and more dangerous for black people. However, a dead child = a dead child, black or white, the white kid isn't less dead or less of a loss, so if black people want white people to speak up against police killing black children, they should put their money where their mouth is when they say the movement doesn't mean that ONLY black lives matter.
This is like Zionists screaming that the world doesn't sufficiently condemn and mourn Jewish victims of Palestinian terror, but then those same people take a huge dump on Palestinian victims of Zionist opression. No. It can't work like that. It mustn't. And yes, I know Zionists in Israel, unlike blacks in america, are in power and hence carry greater responsibility. But as I said, dead kid = dead kid, so if you want to champion a movement that condemns senseless violence and murder, you can't go and ignore a senseless murder at your doorstep just because the victim isn't the color you represent.
I realize Black Lives Matter is not exclusive as in, "Only Black Lives Matter" or "Black Lives Matter More". And I realize police brutality tends to hit blacks harder than whites due to deeply rooted and widely accepted/tolerated racism. I realize that makes the problem more difficult and more dangerous for black people. However, a dead child = a dead child, black or white, the white kid isn't less dead or less of a loss, so if black people want white people to speak up against police killing black children, they should put their money where their mouth is when they say the movement doesn't mean that ONLY black lives matter.
This is like Zionists screaming that the world doesn't sufficiently condemn and mourn Jewish victims of Palestinian terror, but then those same people take a huge dump on Palestinian victims of Zionist opression. No. It can't work like that. It mustn't. And yes, I know Zionists in Israel, unlike blacks in america, are in power and hence carry greater responsibility. But as I said, dead kid = dead kid, so if you want to champion a movement that condemns senseless violence and murder, you can't go and ignore a senseless murder at your doorstep just because the victim isn't the color you represent.