[larrymcg421]

Originally Posted by Edward64

FWIW, I hear it as "Black" Lives Matter and therefore I don't feel part of it.

I guess that just speaks to a different value set and a different way to choose causes to care about. I don't limit the issues I care about to ones that directly affect me. For example, I have marched in the LGBT pride parade several times and none of the letters in LGBT apply to me. All Lives Matter would've been similar to me saying, "no I can't march with you because I believe all marriages matter."

Changing the wording of BLM to include everyone actually dilutes the organization's message. BLM believes there is a racial component to police brutality. They want to get to the bottom of that racial problem and find a way to change that culture. There's nothing wrong with a group that attacks police brutality in general. They should be allies, not enemies of BLM, much like the American Cancer Society isn't an anemiy of the Lung Cancer Alliance just because one focuses on all cancer and the other focuses on a specific cancer.