Somehow, somewhere a misconception was formed that the movement of \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d meant no one else\u2019s life mattered. The best response I\u2019ve heard to date is, \u201cthere\u2019s no need to remind the world that all lives matter because it\u2019s clear that it\u2019s specifically the Black lives that are feared the most.\u201d However, there are groups of people that seem to think of Black Lives Matter as a hate group that denounces the livelihood to everything and everyone that isn\u2019t Black, including police officers. Though hate crimes have occurred against officers while the culprits claimed Black Lives Matter, it is untrue. It is unfair to label an entire movement based on the ill action of a few people.<\/p>\n
As a Black woman who often attends workshops in rural and suburban areas I often find myself in various situations where I am asked to speak on the behalf of the Black community. I refuse to do so because I will not compartmentalize my Blackness and everyone else\u2019s into one opinion by one person. So, how could one base their entire opinion of Black Lives Matter to that of people who dislike officers? Why not see the importance to of fixing an unjust system? Why not encourage a group of people who have been forced by society to stay silent for so long?<\/p>\n
After all the point of Black Lives Matter is not to combat the lives or integrity of police officers. It\u2019s not to condemn the efforts of someone\u2019s job that they have taken an oath to perform. It\u2019s the EXACT opposite. Just because one wears a police uniform does not give them the right to stereotype, mistreat and kill Black people. Regardless of how you slice it, Black people are charged, and incarcerated at higher rates than any other ethnic or racial group in America. Black Lives ALSO matter regarding the disproportion of federal disinvestment in communities that led to water shutoffs, home foreclosures and low graduation rates amongst a bazillion other atrocities. Let us recognize that the treatment of Black people in America is systematic.<\/p>\n
I urge you to note that just because a criminal is Black does not mean they are a supporter of Black Lives Matter and just because a white officer serves an urban community does mean they will mistreat and stereotype Black people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Somehow, somewhere a misconception was formed that the movement of \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d meant no one else\u2019s life mattered. The best response I\u2019ve heard to date is, \u201cthere\u2019s no need to remind the world that all lives matter because it\u2019s clear that it\u2019s specifically the Black lives that are feared the most.\u201d However, there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,64,27,282,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livedetroit","category-detroit-lives","category-education","category-reflection","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}