Quote Originally Posted by Croesy Blue View Post
If someone can’t comprehend why the origin of all lives matter is disingenuous and why using it purposefully undermines an anti racism message. I doubt that venn diagram will explain anything to them.
But this is the entire problem, the debate has become centred around token statements. 'All Lives Matter' as a message would have been fantastic before 'Black Lives Matter' emerged, then it became a subtle way to oppose what BLM stood for. So a year + on the world is still debating which slogans are okay, meanwhile it doesn't feel as though any actual progress has been made.

This is the point I have tried and failed to make in the other BLM threads is that the slogan quickly became a screen that companies, sports clubs, politicians and people in general used to gain approval in public whilst in some instances actually being racist, having racist policies and presiding racist internal structures at the very same time. They don't get called out because as a society we only look at the surface and they are kneeling or showing the banner on their website.