I would like to begin with my complete admiration for any individuals brave enough to risk their well-being under a pledge to protect and serve their community. I sincerely, respectfully thank all firefighters, EMTs, security guards, police officers, and other community heroes for the good work they do. These lives, like every other life on this planet, are important. However, there are a lot of problems with #BlueLivesMatter.

Firstly, if you need to say #BlueLivesMatter, you're likely missing the point of #BlackLivesMatter (AKA BLM Movement). The BLM movement is not claiming only black lives matter. They are not OBLM. The hashtag is not #OnlyBlackLivesMatter. The main goal, from my understanding, is to address the injustice and imbalance in which many African Americans are forced to live.

We all, hopefully, are conscious of the insane, inhumane, and inconceivable struggles, discrimination, heartaches, and murders of the African American community. Slavery and segregation are key points of American History. As ugly as they are, they are true events of our ancestors and they cannot be ignored and forgotten otherwise, we're bound to repeat them.

These horrible events of the past and the even more gruesome tragedies of today are why we remind others #BlackLivesMatter. Yes, African Americans are not the only race of people that have lost lives. Again, that is not what the BLM Movement is saying. Their point is that Americans need to acknowledge the racism that still exists in America.

I think what many #BlueLivesMatter supporters fail to realize is that police officers, though they have had their fair share of struggles, have not been discriminated against like African Americans.

Remember that time when police officers were forcibly kidnapped from their homes by strangers and transported to a new country against their will? Oh right, those weren't police officers, those were Africans.

Remember that time when police officers were made into slaves for rich, white people? Oh, those were Africans, too.

Remember that time when police officers were thought of as three-fifths of a person? Nope, those were African people.

Remember that time when police officers were consistently belittled with derogatory terms such as "monkey," "ape," "baboon," "negro," and "nigger?" Actually, those terms have all been used against African Americans.

Remember that time when police officers couldn't vote, or eat at certain restaurants, or go to school and get an education? But wait, that was discrimination against African Americans.

Remember that time when police officers could only use designated, often lower quality utilities such as water fountains and bathrooms? Right, that was only for African Americans!

Remember that time when police officers were forced to sit on the back of the bus and were arrested like Officer Rosa Parks, were they to refuse to move? But Rosa Parks was an African American woman and not a police officer... So that was discrimination against African Americans, too.

Remember that time when that hate group called the Klu Klux Klan savagely murdered and terrorized police officers solely because of the color of their uniform? Nope, that terrorist group targets African Americans even today.

Remember that time when those police officers were killed brutally and unfairly because of their uniform color? Remember the people as young as seven years old getting murdered for their clothing? Remember Amadou Diallo, Ousmane Zongo, Timothy Stansbury, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Ramarley Graham, Tamon Robinson, Rekia Boyd, Kimani Gray, Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown Jr., Charly "Africe" Leundeu Keunang, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Rumain Brisbon, Jerame Reid, Tony Robinson, Phillip White, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Sam Dubose, India Kager, Jamar Clark, Quintonio LeGrier, Trayvon Martin,Cameron Tillman, Yvette Smith, Natasha McKenna, Angelo Brown, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and too many more names.

Police officers are granted the ability to take off the blue uniforms on their skin. No human of any race can take of their skin and throw it in the laundry. They can't spend a few dollars on a different color shirt and wear that instead of the skin with which they were born. They can't escape the color of their skin by choosing a different career path.

People of color did not choose their skin the way police officers chose their career. People are born with skin of a certain hue. People are not born in a police uniform they are incapable of taking off for so much as a second of their life.

Yes, police officers have a very difficult job, their lives are important, and they deserve so much recognition and respect for all their good work. I do not dispute that. However, police officers have not faced the centuries of direct discrimination and prejudice against them like African Americans. That is why the BLM Movement keeps fighting. One day I hope they won't have to battle anymore.