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Anyone else sick of black lives matter?

This is a group that only cites examples that fit their agenda and talks about them as if they were the norm. Police brutality however affects people of all races not just black. When you say black lives matter you basically are saying their lives matter more than the lives of all other races. All lives matter is about everyone mattering equally. Black people haven't been institutionally discriminated against legally since 1964. Sure there are individual examples however white males and Asians suffer from Affirmative Action. AA policy basically targets white men and Asians in order to let less qualified job candidates or students cut in front of the employment or scholarship line just because they are black, Latino or female. There is also far more black on white interracial crime as opposed to white on black interracial crime. In addition the often cited scenario of black men getting longer sentences in prison for the same crimes as white men are inaccurate. Allot of these black men getting longer sentences is because of their affiliation of gangs. Its more about law enforcement and prosecutors trying to keep organized criminals behind bars and not race. I sympathize with and understand our nations history of race. However it is illogical to distort facts to fit your agenda. And its illogical to think that white people should owe something to black people based on history. In 2016 not a single white person alive ever owned a slave and black people of today never experienced slavery either. Its been over 40 years since the civil rights movement. Yet the way so called civil rights activists talk about race in this country would make you believe we are in 1956 and not 2016. Sorry for the long rant I could go on for probably another hour just thought I would share my opinion on this topic.

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hami1091 · 41-45, F

While there are bad police officers there are far more good than bad and so I get sick of hearing about how all police officers are terrible and corrupt people, also when there is a badge hiding bad cop police brutality does not discriminate. It's more about the bad cops ego than it is the race of the person.

To answer the question of the title of your story "Anyone else sick of black lives matter?"

Hell yes! I am sick of all racist and that group included.

I am also sick of the race card being used and equally sick of the term "white privilege" White privilege is a myth.

I am also sick of everytime someone brings up a black person being killed by a cop, (And let me add here white people are too, they don't make the news because it does not fit media race war agenda and also some are justified, some are not the last 2 black gentlemen that were killed I will say IMO one was, one wasn't)some racist reject will make a black crime on black crime statement who the hell cares? That is irreverent to what happened at that very moment.

I too sympathize about what happened to the blacks years ago,(as well as the Native Americans) I also sympathize to what happened to the Jews, but no white person alive is to blame for any of that that, and as a country, we need to work together not go along with a race war started and fueled by media and be pulled apart.

There is not a race alive that does not encounter some sort of discrimination or does not come across some sort of racism.

Do the lives of black people matter?

Yes, they do.

So does the lives of white people matter?

Yes, they do.

And so does every other person's life matter, regardless of race, gender or the job they happen to have or not have.