What is your Interpretation of the Slogan "Black Lives Matter"?

As like most of us I fought for our rights and ways of life. We have more to fight over elsewhere to preserve what we have now. We don't need to fight here with the same people we depended on overseas with no matter what there skin color... Americans are Americans. Treat everyone with respect, it goes a long way. Every life matters!

I wore a badge a long time ago, and every night I went home I knew I made the best decisions I could for every call that I had. Not everyone went to jail or got a ticket, it was the officer's disgression depending on the circumstances. The department's motto was to serve and protect. It was nothing for us to help someone change a flat tire, not just block traffic. Times have changed!

SPC Andrew Griffin, this post needs more tags. Otherwise, a lot of people are going to miss this. I normally use all 5 slots even if some overlap.

The Fact that it has to be pointed out/said in the 1st place says it all.

Laws/Legislation past & present … injustice is why it’s been said.

A look at the Casual Killing Act of 1669 that made it legal to kill a slave at will :

1669
Virginia passes an act regarding the casual killing of slaves: "If any slave resist his master (or other by his master’s order correcting him) and by the extremity of the correction should chance to die, that his death shall not be accompted felony."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/face2faceafrica.com/article/a-look-at-the-casual-killing-act-of-1669-that-made-it-legal-to-kill-a-slave-at-will/amp

Justification for lesser value of LIFE based on pigmentation/hue becomes the rally-cry for proximity crimes & killings by screaming out #blackonblack crime.

Until humans evolve … well this post exist now doesn’t it?!?

1.) Remembering Black Veterans Targeted for Racial Terror Lynchings

Source : https://eji.org/news/remembering-Black-veterans-and-racial-terror-lynchings/

2.) The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans
Peter C. BakerNovember 27, 2016

Source : https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-tragic-forgotten-history-of-black-military-veterans/amp

3.) Guest Column: Why has the black soldier's experience in Vietnam been overlooked and marginalized?
By Richard Danforth
Posted Nov 21, 2017 at 6:04 PM

Source : https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.jacksonville.com/opinion/columnists/2017-11-21/guest-column-why-has-black-soldier-s-experience-vietnam-been%3ftemplate=ampart

It is saying that only Black Lives Matter.
The other thing it is a hypocrite group. My reason being. BLM does not give dame about REAL people.
Only thing they care about is racking in money and getting people to hate each other.
Tell me who have they helped ?
Not the people they claim too.
The money only goes to Democrat Politicians and them self's. Millions for house's in neighborhoods that they call Racist because most of the people in them are upper class white.
They say they are about Black people being killed. But do nothing about the main cause of black's being killed is other black's mainly Gang banger's.
And in mostly Democratic city and state's.
First they should work on keeping black family's together. Instead of BREAKING THEM UP.
If family's stay together the better off the children will be. This is not a black or white thing it is a people thing.
Education not brain washing is the key to a good life.
My neighbor and two best friend's prove this. by the way they are Black MEN that are father's to there children , Not just the baby daddy.
If you think that I am being racist , Pull your head out of your ass.

Dislike- MLK would protest against it- they are using it like only Black lives are important- I was raised that ALL lives are important. If they really want to lower young Blacks dying then go after the gangs, drive by shootings, drug dealers all which account for over 80% of the deaths.

I don't understand why a persons skin determines what they are. We are all homo sapiens. We come in all sizes and colors just like cars. I had never seen a colored person until I joined the Marine Corp at 17. I was stationed at camp Lejune from 59to 61. Marines stick together. I had friends that I could go to the EM club on base and do other things with. Movies etc. But when we went on liberty to Jacksonville we couldn't be seen together. Everything was segregated. I didn't understand why. Some day when we get into deep space and meet up undesirable aliens who want to wipe Earth out maybe we homo sapiens will stick together or cease to exist. In many foreign countries, Japan and Germany for example Every one is considered equal. Ive been to Okinawa its no big deal to be another color with the Japanese. Another thing is why police shoot to kill everytime they fire their handgun. I guess they don't want any witnesses. It seems stupid this day and age, everybody has a camera. Black lives do matter. All lives matter.

I just wish people would wait for the facts to come out about all these cases before screaming racism and trying to lynch the cops. So many of these cases the cops or individuals get crucified by the media with misleading information before any facts come out and later we find out that the shooting was justified.

All lives matter. I am not an African-American, I am a latino, but you'd never know it unless I told you. So I won't tell you what is like to be a minority in the United States. My son-in-law is a police officer in a large southern Michigan Police force. I've been privileged to be at dinners and picnics with his fellow officers, and I've spoken with officers of all races. They tell me, that they quickly assess the likelihood of whether or not they are going to be in a fight. The leading indicator is not race, it is the appearance of the suspect. Does he look low-income or not? Unfortunately, there is a high correlation between low-income and race. There are areas in his community that are predominantly African-American, but pretty solidly middle income, and they are no more likely to get in a fight there, than in a solidly middle income white neighborhood. The attitude of the people they stop is less confrontational and thus less likely to escalate. Most of those officers will also admit that it may be the chicken or the egg coming first in low-income areas.

Its a race baiting slogan plain and simple, And it started from a incident where the "VICTIM" was a criminal who had just committed a robbery, But now he as a Memorial in his name. Police have reached out to the local communities only to be told that people should be killing them. People do not want to be responsible for their own actions so have to blame someone because its their "Perceived Rights" Most of them have never even read the constitution and believe anything Jessie or Al tell them.

I believe that it is intended to point out the large number of young black men who are killed each year while in confrontations with police. I also see that there is a large division in the mindsets of races over these deaths. I don't believe that all of these are for the same reasons. Some claim it is racially motivated every time and that it wouldn't have happened if the person was white. Still there are those who say that defiance of authority and failure to obey the police is to blame. I believe that it is a combination of the two. Yes some cases of racism are involved, and so are cases where the people are clearly defiant and not trying to save their own life but argue with police. I have seen in my life many changes. We all need to control our selves and try to keep moving forward in race relations until we realise there are only americans. One kind. All races.