The Black Lives Matter movement is one of the most controversial things to talk about recently. Depending on what you say about this subject, you can lose friends and gain enemies. There are proven statistics of racial benefactors in today's life. Yes, still. And this would be a great movement if it didn't have so many problems.
The biggest being that there seems to be two different Black Lives Matter movements going, one of which is pointing out that people of color are not treated the same and are stereotyped. They are more likely to be pulled over by a cop for any reason. They are not going to be given a summer in jail for sexually assaulting a woman because they can swim and they're white; they are going to spend all 14 years in prison for the crime. They are more likely to be shot for reaching for their wallet because someone's going to think they are reaching for a gun. The people fighting for Black Lives Matter because of these reasons are the good ones and are justified. The other group is not.
They are the ones who want to hurt police, who want to hurt people not of color. They are the ones saying we don't need police, when really we do need police. We just don't have all good police. We have some bad ones, but they want to blame the entire police force and all non people of color. Isn't this the same thing they are accusing police and white people of doing though? They accuse white people and police of categorizing them and being racist, but that's exactly what they are doing if they think this way.
Whenever I try to bring this point up I am immediately targeted by people saying that I don't support "BLM". I am seen as an enemy because I have something different to say about the movement. Really, that is completely untrue. I do support the "BLM" movement. I support the one fighting for equality and justice that shouldn't even be being questioned, but sadly it is still a problem. I don't, however, support "Fuck the police" or think that they should be hurt, or that they are all bad. And, yes, I understand that originally that this isn't what "BLM" was fighting, but that's the point of my article. This is an a rising group of people. They call themselves "BLM" supporters, but they have more violent thoughts and agenda.
This was a screenshot I took personally. I'm scared that people are thinking this way. And when I defend the cops' lives, people accuse me of not defending Philando Castile's life. Why can I not care about both? An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
People are pushing this movement into a direction we really don't want it to go. When I read these comments from people I want to believe that it's a joke and it isn't real, but it is very real and it is happening. I support Black Lives Matter. I don't support the killing of others to "make it fair."
