#Blacklivesmat

[Faith No More]

The thing with blacklivesmatter and similar hashtags is that people often miss the point - It isn't saying white lives don't matter, or that we shouldn't protest against whites being killed, or that white people are always evil and black people are always good - It is just saying that, in some cases, you are more likely to be shot, killed and suffer violence if you're black, particularly against the police. I can't name every single case in history when a black person suffered at the hands at the police, and while I don't think all of them are due to racism, I also believe some of those people wouldn't have been killed if they were white.

Saying that there's more black on black crime is missing the point - Most crimes are intraracial, meaning that whites get killed by whites more often and blacks by blacks, etc - It makes sense, but it's a whole different topic with no relevance to blacklivesmatter.

There was actually a great segment on The Nightly Show that I can't find that had Thelonious Monk explaining how insisting that it should be "All lives matter" is minimizing the problem that black people are trying to address and quite derogatory to suggest.

I honestly can't understand how someone cannot grasp that "black lives matter" is not a racist slogan, but people whining about it being racist is entirely indicative of why we can't solve our racial problems in the U.S.