All Life Matter: Do All Lives Matter?

The use of the phrases “all lives matter” to pay no heed to “black lives matter” are beyond ignorant to the real problem. When the president says God bless America, Should he not say God bless all the other countries as well. When the first slave ships were transporting slave ships in the sixteenth century, black lives did not matter. The true meaning of black lives matter does not suggest that all lives are not precious, but it does reaffirming that we are still alive and breathing, and we would still like to be recognize as human beings. According to the Marshall Project, police have shot and killed a young black man (ages eighteen to twenty-nine) — such as Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. — one hundred seventy times since January two thousand fifteen. Twenty four of them were unarmed. At the …show more content…
The black lives movement is trying to bring us back together while the all lives campaign supporters are trying to tear us apart. Why are you saying “all lives matter” rather than saying “black lives matter?” Is it because of the word “black?” Let’s face it, some white people are afraid of a young black male that is unarmed and breathing. "I can 't breathe," said by the asthmatic Garner to police at least eleven times as police held him to the ground and before he died. Eric Garner was unarmed and under suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes, but at the end the police showed that his live did not matter. Richard Sherman an African American male and extremely intelligent athlete who has repeatedly stated that he is all for all lives matter. Richard Sherman said "I stand by what I said that All Lives Matter and that we are human beings” (Stracham). Philando Castile was shot several time just because he wanted to show that he was licensed to carry a firearm. I am pretty sure if we were all human beings that situation would not have come to that horrific