I’m here to tell the “Black
Lives Matter” crowd that they’re not doing it right.
When you rudely interrupt and basically heckle your own people
(Democratic presidential hopefuls Martin O'Malley and Sen. Bernie Sanders) at a function, you’re doing yourselves no favors.
(Why attack the very people who care about your cause? The Democrats are your people! They're the one you WANT in office. Why would you do this to your own candidates???)
When one of the
presidential hopefuls says “all lives matter” in response to your screaming “black
lives matter”, you start a shit storm. This isn’t helping your cause.
When your own ex-governor and ex-mayor, O'Malley, feels so bullied and
pressured to not offend your rude self that he is then forced to apologize for saying all lives
matter, you’ve LOST your cause.
Presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley took the spineless,
gutless, hope-I-don't-offend-anyone, way out by backpedaling on his response that all lives matter and then
actually apologized. He just sealed his fate and will never be president. Good job BLM'ers. He might have helped your cause if you hadn't just ruined his chance to be president. After all, he was Governor of Maryland, from 2007 to 2015. Prior to being elected as Governor, he served as the Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007. As Mayor of Baltimore, he restored voting rights to 42,000 convicted felons. He also empowered citizen-review boards by police and said that they should be funded to allow for independent detectives to investigate officers.
THIS GUY WAS YOUR GUY AND YOU SCREWED HIM.
If the BLMer's goal is to alienate themselves even
further, then good job. If their goal was to create even more racism towards
black people, they can now check that off their list (see comments below for proof). If their aim is to just
make headlines, raise hell, and accomplish nothing positive, then they can all go home
now because their job is done.
The BLMer's will argue that by saying all lives matter in
response to their slogan, we are missing the point. They say we just don’t get
it if we believe that all lives matter. They say that by including everyone, by
making everyone’s life important, it somehow dilutes the fact that black lives
matter. Here is how they say O'Malley (and all white people) should have answered.
It wasn’t that the BLM people just interrupted the meeting
by shouting their slogan. No, they actually demanded that the men on stage
(Bernie Sanders was there also) say the names of three black women who died after
a run-in with police. HOW ARROGANT! You demand? Who are you?
They then demanded the impossible; after the ringleader of
the protesters was invited on stage (big mistake), she demanded to know what
they planned on doing to “dismantle institutional racism”.
(Doesn't she look proud of herself?)
Really? You people really think that ANYONE has a clue how
to do that? You really think that either of these men have a Hail Mary plan on
how to undo hundreds of years of racism? Racism that you are now perpetuating
by disregarding the lives of other people of color? You think being rude and arrogant bullies is going to help the situation?
Or was your real agenda to embarrass these men and get your
picture in the papers? Mission Accomplished. But you didn’t really accomplish
anything, did you? You got an old, white man to apologize for thinking that all
lives are precious. Good job. You’ve accomplished nothing.
Do you want to really affect change and get people of all
colors to back your agenda? Do you REALLY want change? Do you REALLY want all
races to respect black lives and deem them as important as the lives of other
races? Then add one little word to your slogan. That word is “too”.
“Black Lives Matter Too”. By adding one little word, you include
everyone, instead of deeming your lives somehow more important by denigrating
everyone who dares to include every life. By adding the word “too”, you show that
your lives are JUST as important as anyone else’s instead of the only lives that matter, excluding all
other races. It would illustrate that
you believe, while all lives matter, black lives should matter too. This is a
cause that I think everyone would get behind.
But instead, you’re obnoxious, rude, exclusive, and racist.
Yes, YOU are the racists. And you’re ruining your cause, which would lead one to
believe that you have a hidden agenda. You don’t REALLY want black lives to
matter, or else you would start in your own neighborhoods, with your own
black-on-black crime. And unwanted pregnancies. And lack of education.
But instead you run around with your little signs and think
you’ve accomplished something because you forced a white man apologize. You
didn’t actually change his beliefs. In fact you probably made him a little more
racist than he was when he woke up that morning. Good job!
These are just a few comments from this story as it makes it's way around the Interrnets I tried to find some that actually helped the
BLM cause, but there were none. Just page after page of comments like these (Poor grammar and spelling have not been corrected. I cut and pasted them just as they appeared) :
As a black person, I
think this debate is some b-s. All lives DO MATTER and I find it RIDICULOUS
that O'Malley had to apologize for a true statement. And, I find it equally ridiculous that Black
Lives Matter only means when a black person is being violated by a member of
another race and not when a black person is being violated by another black
person. Most violence against blacks
will be due to black on black violence. We
can get up in arms over police brutality, but we sit on the sidelines when black
on black violence happens. I'm just fed
up with the hypocrisy. If you want Black
lives to truly matter ---start at home! And stop the double standard.
i'm a strong supporter
of blacks who feel they should speak up against police brutality towards blacks.
having grown up in nyc and thus witnessing this first hand, i've always stood
behind them when it came to this cause. However, when someone says "all
lives matter" and you say no, demanding an apology as if the person said
something wrong... you become my enemy because unlike you black folks, i
actually believe that ALL lives matter. I’m done supporting ya'll until you
come back and apologize for only believing otherwise.
Whatever the protesters' (hecklers'?) intentions, you don't paint yourself in a positive light booing someone for saying that all lives matter.
I'm sorry, but when we
are not allowed to say "All Lives Matter" and only "Black Lives
Matter", you are saying my life doesn't matter. I cannot support your
'movement' when you are saying my life doesn't matter.
If black lives really
matter then stop glorifying rap culture which calls on violence, drugs and
other nonsense
Considering that 90%
of all blacks that are murdered are killed by other black people, it seems that
those shouting "Black Lives Matter" should be turning that anger on
those in their own communities. If they
showed that much passion while protesting in the inner cities against the
gangs, maybe they would be able to get those numbers down...
The other side of the
equation is black lives matter to whom? Lets look at how blacks are killed and
who kills them. Until black lives matter to themselves , no slogans will make
any difference.
I'm really sick of
being demonized because I'm white. If no group should be judged on the actions
of a few members, why is it whites are so easily lumped into the
"uncaring, rotten, prejudiced" group? Sanders is right, as important
as the black lives movement is, all lives matter. It's not like he was being
oppressive or cruel. But stating the truth is becoming more and more difficult.
They are perfectly
able to proclaim that black lives matter. They should not, however, demean
someone else for stating that all lives matter. The fact that you think it's
"flat out du_mb to suggest that all lives matter" basically proves
the point the Op was making. I'm honestly not sure why this is such a difficult
concept for some to grasp.
The only time anyone
makes the argument that "black lives matter" = "only black lives
matter" is when someone saying "all lives matter" is shouted
down, demeaned, and chastised for it, which in turn gives the distinct
appearance that those doing the shouting that, to them, no, all lives don't
matter quite as much to us. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
It seems that
"Black lives matter" only when it involves alleged abuse by police
officers against a black citizen. We
never hear that slogan when blacks kill other black, or blacks commit violent
crimes against other blacks, or blacks are committing a disproportionate amount
of crimes and ruining their lives, or blacks fail to stay in school, etc. If blacks want society to take the
"Black lives matter" slogan seriously, then they need to show they
care about all situations.
And my personal favorite:
If Trump will just say
all lives matter he has my vote. I’m so sick of the PC sickness that has taken
over politics.
