If Black Lives Matter, why Don’t Black Lives Matter to Blacks?

Todays rant has to do with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. I used to have zero issues with this groups movement until some of their supporters started chanting Pigs in a Blanket, Fry them like Bacon. Do they really think chanting (*)(*)(*)(*) like this will get anyone to feel sympathetic to them and their cause. WTF, this group has single handedly set race relations back 50 or more years. Look ALL LIVES MATTER, regardless of color whether the person is black, white, brown, yellow, red, blue, or any other shade in the spectrum.

Why can’t the Black Lives Matter movement address a much larger problem, the real problem, Black on Black crime and murders? Are the BLM supporters even aware that 90% of ALL blacks murdered are murdered by BLACKS and since 1980 over 324,000 black on black murders have occurred. Lets face it, most cities in the U.S. have turned in to urban battlegrounds with drug dealers, gang members, and robbers ruling the streets.

All the BLM movement has done with their recent bull(*)(*)(*)(*) is drive a further rift between the police and the blacks. Considering the increased danger the police officers are now facing from wackos all over the country due to being fired up by the BLM movement it would not surprise me that violent crimes and murder rates amongst black on black crimes is going to skyrocket. You can’t blame the police officers of not wanting to place themselves in the line of fire and to be honest I wouldn’t blame them. Is the BLM movement aware the cops kill almost two times more whites than they do blacks while statistics show blacks being arrested way more times whites even though blacks only make up 13% of the population? Between the years 1999-2011 police officers killed 2151 whites while in the same period police officers killed 1130 blacks. I will leave it up to you to figure out what that statistic really means.

I have watched numerous videos of incidents and arrests and in almost every arrest the police have only reacted in a hostile manner after they are not being given the respect they deserve or they were treated in a hostile manner first. The BLM movement is demanding respect which is fine but if they want respect they must get the word out to their people that they must show respect first. If a police officer asks you to get out of the car, put your cigarette out or anything else, you should just do it instead of (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing, complaining and/or resisting. If you want to act like a thug, you will be and deserve to be treated like a thug. Its a two way street and what comes around goes around!

Finally if you REALLY want to be respected stop rioting and burning down your cities every time you do not like what's on the news!

 

Is it really fair to say that BLM set race relations back 50 years when 1) relations were bad in the 1st place and 2) relations are not one way?

The media drives a lot of the narratives. This may be why people aren't aware that cops kill about twice as many white people as they do black. But something tells me that white people won't take it so well if they heard "Another unarmed White man killed by police" or felt they were under attack by the police.

BLM can focus on police issues and other factions can focus on violence within the BC.

Your last statement has to be disregarded. Being peaceful yields no results. However, I do believe they are going about it the wrong way. They should aggressively push all white officers out and help get black people placed in those positions. Only then will the race angle go away.

 

The difference is when black people kill other black people they go to prison, that's not usually the case when a black person is killed by a police officer. As for the "all lives matter" statement, of course they do but not all lives are equally at risk

 

The black community is well aware of problems within it. Black Lives Matters is a group focused on the treatment of blacks by the police, including the deaths at police hands. As I have posted here before, asking why they don't care about the other issues is like criticizing the Cancer Society for not getting upset about a botched plastic surgery. It isn't their focus.

 

Perhaps they should look at their chip on their shoulder approach when dealing with any kind of authority, especially from white people. If they act with respect they will beget respect in return.

 

no lives matter to murderous criminals.... cops are expected to be better then that.... that is the ones the saying was directed at

why does the right always compare cops to criminals as if that is the standard cops should try to achieve?

I do think they should of used "all lives matter" though

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Recent history says you are wrong. It is acting disrespectful that is getting them the attention they want. Acting respectful doesn't get them in the paper, let alone on the front page.

 

some have found some cops can't control their cool, so they are taking advantage of that, don't disagree with you there

 

a whole generation of black people relegated to single-parent homes, poverty, poor education, poor housing, and no good entry-level jobs.

plus cops who love to think all black men are criminals.

no sir, BLM didn't create this situation. They simply exposed it.

 

OP is missing the point. It's one thing to be the victim of crime regardless of colour. It's quite another to be murdered by an agent of the government that is responsible to protect you, because you are black. That's what BLM is all about.

 

So a "White lives matter" movement needs to start since more whites are killed by police then blacks. Then the two "matter" movements could shout about who is more important.

I agree with the OP.....all lives matter.

 

Still missing the point. Yes whites are killed by the police far too often, and at times without cause. But they are not killed specifically because they are white, or in far greater proportion than blacks. BLM is important because blacks are targeted by racist cops and killed because they are black. And it's been going on for decades. It's only now that we all can see it thanks to the proliferation of phone cameras.

 

I'm sorry but I have to ask. How can you know this? In the last 15 to 20 years how can you know a large portion or any measurable portion of the killings between cops and blacks were race related.

Since more whites are killed every year than blacks doesn't it make more sense to say all of the whites and blacks killed by cops are because they're are well......criminals? Unless of course the racism works both ways and the whites are killed because they are white......mostly.