The truth about “All Lives Matter” is that not all lives have mattered — which is why we need to keep saying Black Lives Matter. | follow @the-movemnt
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xelamanrique318: Hi Thomas. I was just wondering, how do you feel when people say "All Lives Matter"?
thatsthat24:
I think it’s a movement that derails and draws attention away from the actual everyday threat and struggle that black people have had to endure, the whole reason #BlackLivesMatter was created in the first place. There was no #AllLivesMatter before that hashtag, so it was inherently created in order to divert away from the struggle that the original movement was created to address. If All Lives Mattered, the people proclaiming this would be heart-broken by the atrocities undergone by black people, and would do everything in their power to make those tragedies stop. Address that issue and PROVE that you believe all lives matter.