Come on Bad Wolf. Don't do the false dichotomy thing here. You know exactly how ridiculous that is, and you wouldn't allow it in another debate.
No one is saying that white lives don't matter. No one is saying that all white people have it made in the shade.
What we are saying is that a vastly disproportionate amount of police brutality, arrests, and incarceration is incident upon black people in the country. In Ferguson, where #BLM started, the freaking US Department of Justice released staggering statistics that by all measures are not unique to that city. The movement extends to the fact that we have a lot of school districts that are more segregated now than they were in the 50s.
In certain areas of the country, those statistics apply to Latin Americans as well. But for the whole county, they apply to blacks.
Being half black and very educated, living in TN, getting pulled over by a cop here is a frightening experience. I have had a gun pulled on me because I reached into my glove compartment to get my registration. I have been asked whose car I was driving because it was an Audi. I've been pulled over once.
No one is saying that white lives don't matter. No one is saying that all white people have it made in the shade.
What we are saying is that a vastly disproportionate amount of police brutality, arrests, and incarceration is incident upon black people in the country. In Ferguson, where #BLM started, the freaking US Department of Justice released staggering statistics that by all measures are not unique to that city. The movement extends to the fact that we have a lot of school districts that are more segregated now than they were in the 50s.
In certain areas of the country, those statistics apply to Latin Americans as well. But for the whole county, they apply to blacks.
Being half black and very educated, living in TN, getting pulled over by a cop here is a frightening experience. I have had a gun pulled on me because I reached into my glove compartment to get my registration. I have been asked whose car I was driving because it was an Audi. I've been pulled over once.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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