Is this racist?

[CJD]

(03-26-2019, 09:55 AM)bfine32 Wrote: IMO the whole mantra is divisive and racist; however, I was obviously speaking toward the extreme, just as the OP was. IE, those that focus on hate rather than unity. 

Okay. I only ask because I've seen the characterization of BLM as racist before and it's not an uncommon belief. But I do think there are positive aspects of it. I think the problems began when people starting doing a kind of "reverse movement" with White Lives Matter, All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter as a means to demean, undermine or mock the Black Lives Matter movement.

From my (liberal) viewpoint, the core aspect of Black Lives Matter will always be Black Lives Also Matter. And that probably should have been their movement name, in hindsight.

The reason it was started was, obviously, a response to the increasingly visible abuse/murder of unarmed black people by the police and the all too common "all clear" given to the cops that perpetrated these killings.

I think the fact that white people took it as an attack on their race was largely how it became such a divisive issue in the first place. As a white man, I can see how someone who has no attachment to the black community could perceive it as such, but I never saw it that way because I have a black wife and her and her families' experiences with cops/authority figures (some that I've seen first hand) have been obviously markedly different than my own.

The idea that Black Lives Matter promotes a single race is a misconception that I believe is common on the right. The best way I've found to describe how Liberals view the movement is a comparison I saw on twitter a few years ago. It encapsulated my (and most people I've spoken to) viewpoint/perspective of it in a pretty perfect way:
"Black Lives Matter doesn't mean other lives don't. Like people who say "Save The Rainforests" aren't saying "F*** All Other Types of Forests""


It's an examination of something that is in danger, or being devalued. It isn't a commentary on other races because those races are not under siege the way black lives are.


I'm sure you've heard this all before and you have formed your own opinion. But I figured I would just provide my own insight in the unlikely case that you've never seen or heard this perspective before.