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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
And that basically spells out the problem, and why things like BLM matter and "All Lives Matter" is ignorant and useless.
Everyone knows white lives matter. 5 cops die, a couple of them white, we get a thread that blows up, huge story. Same way in the media, things go crazy.
An innocent black man gun downed by police? No worries, happens all the time, it's not race related it's because they're poor! Or had a bad upbringing! Or some other stupid excuse that completely fails to recognise the impact of systemic racism in the US.
Everyone in North America knows that "All lives matter," but do they know that black lives matter, too?
Clearly, they don't. That's why the group exists. Some of the arguments in this thread have been incredibly naive.
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I disagree. The dozens of shooting deaths of unarmed white and latino Americans at the hands of police every year get almost no media attention. When black Americans are shot by police it elicits far more media attention and public debate, because of the political climate around race in the U.S.
If you ran a poll of how many unarmed whites are killed by police in the U.S. every year, what number do you think most people would come up with? I doubt it would be close to the real number.