Exactly. No one here is mocking or trying to downplay the horrific act that policeman did, but I feel like we should never lose sight of what's most important: We are all human beings.Black people have the same rights as white people, who have the same rights as asian people, and so on.

Eh, I understand your frustration. But in order to keep myself mentally stable I try not to get involved in things I can't change or things I find unethical and instead focus on what I can change. I can't change anything about the fact that Corona exists, but I can wear a mask. I can't go and protest and loot, but I will donate and make my voice heard. I will denounce racism and condemn it and the petty and disgusting racism that America can display is not acceptable. However, this does not give people the right to destroy businesses, loot, and even harm other people. That's not going to help anyone. That bastard was arrested and charged with murder and if you ask me, so far so good. Now if he's found innocent...holy hell.

I understand the frustration within the Black Community and it takes extreme measures like this to even let our concerns be heard, but I'm sure looting and violence isn't the best way to go about doing so. The other side is, we've tried peaceful protest before when other innocent unarmed black men were killed and our voices get brushed to the side. It continues to happen. And when enough becomes enough, you lose sight of reason.

People like to blame both sides of the situation and to an extent that's fair. But, how can we make it so that one side won't have a reason to protest nonviolently or violently? We need new legislation and protocol for American law enforcement. Obviously there's a disparity between how Cops handle African American and White citizens. If we've paid attention to the past few weeks we've seen White citizens weaponize the color of African American's skin because they know how Cops treat us only for all of those case to be the fault of those people. It's revolting. Something needs to change. Protect and Serving for some is not working.

True, but this is about those incidents where black people are killed by the police.

If one person gets murdered, you don't call for all people to have justice. No you call for justice for the victim and their family.

I see it in the same way as I see gay pride parades.  As a straight person, I've never received the message that my sexuality is wrong so I've never felt the need for a straight pride march.

Similarly, I've never felt like my life didn't matter because I was white... but apparently black people feel that way, and it's not hard to see why they might.  

Saying "all lives matter" as a response to "black lives matter" is not done in good faith. It's done to diminish the concerns of black people who face disproportionate police brutality. Well meaning centrists who take the movement's title statement at face value is why it has been so successful. 

Honestly, it's strategically pretty brilliant while disgusting in its intent because the centrist response writes itself. "Well why don't all lives matter?"

lol never thought about that. That is brilliant.

sorry i care more about the 100s dieing each second in africa this very second whom life really shit on

And there's another one. Pointing to other problems as a way of diminishing the current concerns. If someone came to you and said they had cancer would you tell them "Shut the fuck up global warming is going to kill us all in 100 years"? It's definitely a concern, and something that we should take seriously, but isn't really pertinent to the person who came to you with their concerns. 

Personally speaking, I say this because of two reasons:

1 - It's the truth, and it's something that it's easy to lose sights on, especially when something this outrageous happens.

2 - Because many of those people that says ''Black Lives Matter'' are the same ones that are destroying people belongings and properties or attacking white people that had done nothing other than just... being white and being on the wrong place at the wrong time. Don't look no further than what is happening right now. I don't mean to downplay the situation. Black people deserves better treatment and all. But if we really want to extinguish racism, we need to start treating it as a broader discussion, to discuss racism as a whole and attack its cause, rather than just some of it's many branches. Otherwise you end up like now: People picking sides, because they feel like the other side it's trying to downplay the other, like it's some fucking sport.

no but that person has the power to tell(protest/annoy) me and those others cant