Originally Posted by
William Treseder
I posed that question, because i genuinely
couldn’t remember how much of a reaction there was on here at the time it happened.
Im also trying to get my head around recent events, since the murder of George Floyd. The slogan “Black lives matter” hasn't sat comfortable with me.
I know its based on incidents of black people being killed whilst in custody, or whilst getting arrested by police, primarily in the States.
The slogan falls down though, when you roll out the figures of how many black people have been butchered on the streets of the USA and UK, by fellow black people, just for pinning their colours to a different gang. Thousands of young black lives, snuffed out in a heartbeat.
You just cannot start protesting under a slogan like that, and only aim it at the state. It doesn’t work.