In 2013, the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter surfaced. Since then, the Black Lives Matter movement has spread nationally throughout the news and social media. Along the way some started supporting another hashtag, #AllLivesMatter. Yes, all lives do matter, but standing by, spreading, and believing in the sudden emergence of this movement undermines and draws attention away from the real problem.

1. All lives vs Minority lives

All lives matter but not all lives are being undervalued, oppressed or targeted like the lives of minorities.

2. NOT an equal playing field

The United States has never been and, to this day, is still not an equal playing field regarding the American Dream. How will you ever participate in life, love and the pursuit of happiness when your gender, race and/or sexual orientation cannot be respected equally?

3. Rape statistics

"All Lives Matter" yet almost 20% of women in the United States have been a victim of rape.

4. Refugees of war

Oh! All lives matter? So let us help Syrian refugees so they do not have to live their lives surrounded by war. No? But I thought...

5. It's not an actual argument

Most of the time when All Lives Matter is brought up or argued it is reactionary and only used to undermine and belittle minority voices.

6. Do you even rally?

All Lives Matter rallies do not exist because for the most part they are strictly media situated and only come up to silence Black Lives Matter protesters.

7. Highly hypocritical

The same people who say they do not understand how 'All Lives Matter' could possibly wash away the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement are the same people who argue how saying 'Happy Holidays' erases Christmas.

8. All lives matter = ALL lives...including Muslims.

All Lives Matter yet countless mosques have been vandalized and destroyed and countless Muslims targeted and harmed in the United States even before the Paris attacks.

9. If all lives matter then all opinions matter too.

If all lives mattered then all opinions and cries for help would be respected and taken seriously so when the students of The University of Missouri went to social media asking for help and to share what they were going through they would not have been ridiculed and labeled as privileged.

10. All Lives Matter ≠ Black Lives Matter

How do All Lives Matter when 31% of all unarmed deaths committed by police officers on African Americans when only 13% of America is black?