(July 10, 2016 at 9:48 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The thing is, when you bring the so-called "black on black crime" as a response to the BLM, you are minimizing the problem that they are trying to address. It's the same thing as saying "All Lives Matter." No shit, black on black crime happens, and no shit, all lives do matter. But by saying those as responses to BLM, you belittle the goals of BLM and the fact that unarmed black men are being killed at an alarming rate by police officers across this country. You are, in fact, devaluing the point they are trying to make, which is that there has been a decades long struggle of abuse of power by the cops when it comes to black men and women and now is the time to do something about it.
Imagine you go to the ER for severe breathing problems, and when you get there, the doc says, "Well, what about your diabetes? I see you've got some severe problems with that, so come back when you've dealt with that." Meanwhile you're left choking to death. That's what you do when you respond to the BLM with "what about the black on black crime?"
Skip to 3:45 to see Larry take down the "all lives matter" cries.
Imagine if you went to the doctor saying your heart matters, and you want him to focus on the thing that's causing 5 percent of the problem rather than 50 percent of the problem.
Being generous with the statistics there since I'm sure the police kill less than ten percent of the amount black people kill.
Also imagine starting a group against police brutality that could be one unified group for a just cause then segregating the group by focusing attention just on one set of victims based on their racial characteristics.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.