Tucker Carlson Wants You To Forget What 'Black Lives Matter' Is Actually About
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If You Think Black Lives Matter Protests Aren't About Black Lives, You're Racist And Out Of Touch

Sorry not sorry, but it's true.

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If You Think Black Lives Matter Protests Aren't About Black Lives, You're Racist And Out Of Touch
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Listen, Tucker Carlson, Black Lives Matter is about just that: black lives. It's not a political move from the left to come and attack everybody. It's not about who you agree with politically: it's about making sure black lives, well, matter.

On Monday evening, Fox News commentator, Tucker Carlson, went on a rant about Black Lives Matter.

In fact, he classified the entire movement as a political party.

Tucker: Black Lives Matter is now a political partyFox News//YouTube

That's right... a political party.

Black Lives Matter is NOT a partisan political issue, it's a human issue.

As a white male, Carlson has zero idea what it's like to be dehumanized based on your skin color, to lose out on opportunities because of your skin color, to be murdered because of your skin color.

Tucker, you're straight-up denying your privilege.

Stop turning a battle of human rights into a battle of partisan politics. Not everything needs to be a battle of political parties in this country. Not everything needs to be a big battle pitting two sides against each other. So, Carlson, you can stop doing that at any point in time now.

Division is not needed in a time when we are already so divided. Let's all step up and view this as the human rights issue that it is, and keep politics out of it. If we can't do that, we're failing to acknowledge people's humanity, and honestly, we're failing to help educate others about injustice.

We're promoting racism by putting more emphasis on political parties than people.

And honestly, we just don't need that! There's enough hate in this world without dividing once again over politics and turning everything, and I mean everything, into a political statement.

It doesn't have to be this way. It just needs to be about black lives becoming important, as important as white lives: plan and simple.

Oh, and if you're saying this entire thing isn't about black lives, is your entire circle white?

I have no issue when people don't see eye to eye politically, but that's the issue here — turning a human rights issue into partisan politics is wrong, and as a result, Carlson is missing the entire point of this movement.

People are protesting because they are tired. They're tired of being looked at as less than human.

They're tired of living in fear.

Challenge yourself to listen, truly listen, to someone who has experienced this type of hate and deep-rooted racism. Spoiler alert: it's not sunshine and rainbows.

It's a lot of tears, a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of watching every move you make and a lot of straight-up inequality.

It's not enough to be passive. It's not enough to say, "It doesn't impact me."

Because even though it doesn't impact you, it impacts your black neighbor, your black friend, your black family member.

Wake up and realize that it's not about you or me, as white people. You may not see the point to the protest or you may not see why black people are so angry and fed up in this country.

But, I'm begging you, take the time, hear their story and realize that Carlson, and so many others, are wrong.

This isn't party politics, it's personal.

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