Black Lives Matter?

Black Lives Matter ... is that it?  Do Asian lives matter?  What about Hispanics?  How about Native Americans?  White Folks?  Probably not, right?  What about people of mixed races?  Do they matter?  If we, as a society, value the sanctity of human live, then shouldn't ALL LIVES MATTER?  One would think so.

But the question I'd want to ask the folks with these signs in their yard is this ... do ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER?  Or are we just concerned about some Black lives?  We're obviously concerned about Black lives that are threatened by injustice and/or racism - as recent events would show.  But what about Black lives that are threatened by other Black lives?  What about the Black lives that are lost every weekend in shootings in Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Kansas City, and just about every other large city in the United States?  Do their lives matter?  Even if these Black lives are taken by other Black lives? 

And, just to provide some perspective, somewhere around 25 unarmed Black men died while in police custody in 2019.  That number - 25 - is about the same number of Black men who are killed in an average weekend, combined, in the cities I've mentioned above - and the vast majority of them are killed by other Black men.  So, if Black lives really matter, where are the protests about these Black lives?

What about the Black lives that never have a chance to become a Black life?  I'm talking about those Black babies that never had the chance to be born.  At last count somewhere around 30% of Black pregnancies end in abortion.  Where are the protests about these Black lives?  Do these Black lives matter?

What's become apparent to me is that all of this Black Lives Matter is just an excuse ... an excuse to misbehave, an excuse for criminal behavior, and an excuse to blame others for issues that Blacks are not addressing on their own.  It's not White people that are holding Black people down ... it's Black people that are holding Black people down.  It's not the police that are killing hundreds of Blacks a year, it's Blacks that are killing hundreds of Blacks a year.  It's not White people that are aborting all of those Black babies, it's Black people that are doing it.

So, if you try to tell me that Black Lives Matter, I guess I just have to ask you which ones?  And I ask this because the message that's being sent seems to be more focused on career criminals and thugs rather than on the truly innocent and those being treated unjustly.

As far as I'm concerned ...  

ALL LIVES MATTER