What does " Black Lives Matter" mean to you?

[fuzzybuddy]

It seems the slogan "Black Lives Matter" affects people in certain ways. If you analyze the slogan, it really doesn't say much. I don't know how to simplify it more. Black people are important, too. It's not a threatening statement, yet it invokes huge degrees of intense anger by some. What does " Black Lives Matter" mean to you?

 

[Rosemarie]

I think the slogan itself was a bad choice....'Stop Targeting Black Folks' might have got the message across better. Sorry to say that the movement is now being used by thugs as an excuse to cause mayhem and legalised vandalism.

 

[Becky1951]

It should be Black Lives Matter Also. To me it means the black race has been considered by many for far too long as less important and expendable and targeted by racists and lives lost unjustly.

Its a public worldwide plea for the end of those injustices.

 

[Pecos]

To me it is a reminder that some of my fellow citizens are not being treated justly and we have marched with them in peaceful protests.

It greatly offends me that there are people who have chosen to be be destructive or violent as it greatly jeopardizes what is a legitimate issue.

 

[Aunt Marg]

It seems the slogan "Black Lives Matter" affects people in certain ways. If you analyze the slogan, it really doesn't say much. I don't know how to simplify it more. Black people are important, too. It's not a threatening statement, yet it invokes huge degrees of intense anger by some. What does " Black Lives Matter" mean to you?

I really like the saying, and as far as I'm concerned it's been one of the best things that's ever happened.

 

[Phoenix]

There is nothing wrong with the slogan. Prejudice and bigotry on all levels are ugly. They are propagated by mental and emotional infants. People who are being brutalized because of their race have to do something to stop it. The fact that others come in and are violent is unconscionable. It highjacks the message. All this has to stop. Hate speech from the highest levels of power has to stop. We are better than this. This country was founded to create equality. It's well passed the time for it to happen.

 

[Knight]

Black Lives Matter is a statement of fact. The slogan brought/brings attention to a problem. The problem ignored/overlooked/unreported/ has been exposed. Change is taking place for the good of society.

 

[rgp]

All lives matter....Nothing more need be said !

A slogan that separates ethnicity only broadens the separation of our society.

 

[Phoenix]

All lives matter....Nothing more need be said !

A slogan that separates ethnicity only broadens the separation of our society.

Yes, all lives matter, but it is the black lives that are being targeted now. I'm white. No one is stepping on my neck and killing me on purpose just because of the color of my skin.

 

[JimBob1952]

Nobody is "targeting" black lives. Although blacks are only about 13 percent of the population, they commit over half of the violent crimes in the US. This results in a disproportionate number of contacts with the police, a tiny percentage of which result in fatal confrontations.

Cops killed 259 black people in 2019, including both armed and unarmed individuals. They killed 406 white people. This is from Heather MacDonald in USA Today:


"Nationally, African Americans between the ages of 10 and 34 die from homicide at 13 times the rate of white Americans, according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Justice Department." We're talking about something like 7000 to 8000 deaths here.

So black people murder each other at astronomical rates, but BLM chooses to focus on police killings of black people. That's their call -- there is certainly a lot of room for police reform -- but it's not where the real danger is.

 

[JimBob1952]

Black Lives Matter is a statement of fact. The slogan brought/brings attention to a problem. The problem ignored/overlooked/unreported/ has been exposed. Change is taking place for the good of society.

In the downtown area of my city, a beautiful boulevard distinguished by equestrian statues of Confederate generals now looks like a war zone, with graffiti-covered stumps where the statues used to be. Nobody voted on this; the mob did it. White residents are moving out and property values are dropping. The shortfall in tax revenues menaces school budgets and other programs.

The mob has defaced churches, torched city vehicles and thrown bricks through synagogue windows.

You'll have to explain to me how this benefits society.

 

[Knight]

In the downtown area of my city, a beautiful boulevard distinguished by equestrian statues of Confederate generals now looks like a war zone, with graffiti-covered stumps where the statues used to be. Nobody voted on this; the mob did it. White residents are moving out and property values are dropping. The shortfall in tax revenues menaces school budgets and other programs.

The mob has defaced churches, torched city vehicles and thrown bricks through synagogue windows.

You'll have to explain to me how this benefits society.

This is about a slogan.
You are confusing uncontrolled rioting with the intent of the slogan.

Considering the media coverage of police action showing a disproportionate killing of black citizens by police. Do you think that pointing out that black lives matter via the slogan has value or not?

 

[JimBob1952]

Sorry, I get angry when I drive downtown, as I did yesterday.

In answer to your question, no, I think "Black Lives Matter" has negative worth as a slogan. It divides rather than unites.

 

[JimBob1952]

And part 2: Killing of black citizens by police is disproportionate in relation to black citizens' percentage of the population. However it is not disproportionate in relation to black citizens' participation in violent crime. Although they are only 13 percent of the population, black people commit more than half of all violent crimes.

 

[Nathan]

This sign clarifies the saying:

 

[Gaer]

reverse racism

 

[Rosemarie]

Nobody is "targeting" black lives. Although blacks are only about 13 percent of the population, they commit over half of the violent crimes in the US. This results in a disproportionate number of contacts with the police, a tiny percentage of which result in fatal confrontations.

Cops killed 259 black people in 2019, including both armed and unarmed individuals. They killed 406 white people. This is from Heather MacDonald in USA Today:
"Nationally, African Americans between the ages of 10 and 34 die from homicide at 13 times the rate of white Americans, according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Justice Department." We're talking about something like 7000 to 8000 deaths here.

So black people murder each other at astronomical rates, but BLM chooses to focus on police killings of black people. That's their call -- there is certainly a lot of room for police reform -- but it's not where the real danger is.

I'm glad you said that. We have much the same problem in Britain. The non-whites complain that they are picked on by the police, but the fact is that most of the stabbings which have occurred recently were black men stabbing other black men. There is also a problem with Muslim extremists or 'Jihadists'. We have every right to be suspicious of the immigrant members of our society....and unlike America...these people ARE immigrants.

 

[macgeek]

black lives do matter, all lives matter, but the group BLM means nothing to me. They are a Marxist trained group that is breaking laws and hurting people that did them no wrong. Domestic terrorists that need to be stopped.