Exactly. “Black Lives Matter” means “Black Lives Matter...as much as everyone else’s lives already do.”

Makes total sense. One of my friends asked me to donate to a walk for breast cancer research and I was like “BUT WHAT ABOUT SKIN CANCER?!?!?”

Law enforcement care only about themselves. They also kill unarmed white people and almost always get away with it. Asking law enforcement to value anyone other than themselves and the very wealthy seems sadly pointless. I’m not sure if that can ever be changed because power really does corrupt, and cops seem to be…

The reason why “Black Lives Matter” is a meaningful mantra is the fact that so many people clearly believe the opposite. No one is saying “Black Lives Matter More Than ...,” they’re saying “Black Lives Matter The Same As Every One Else.”

I saw on Twitter someone posted (paraphrased), “saying ‘save the rainforests’ doesn’t automatically mean ‘fuck all other forests,’” which I appreciated as an analogy for all this “all lives matter” nonsense.