The Black Lives Matter movement is full of hatred towards whites and police officers, but it’s those who dare to say that “All Lives Matter” who “are part of America’s race problem” according to Michael Tomlin-Crutchfield for The Huffington Post.
“Dear ‘All Lives Matter’ millennials, you are part of America’s race problem. You see, a post-racial society is neither a reality in the United States nor anywhere else in the world. Take a look at the undercurrents of racism and xenophobia sweeping across the world that caused lower income Brits to vote to leave the EU and Austria almost elect a rumored Nazi sympathizer,” he writes.
That Tomlin-Crutchfield makes a plea to call the police on him for walking down the street is understandable. One need not have to sympathize with this request and his point about white people feeling “unsafe” around black men and also support Black Lives Matter, however.
His thoughtful remarks are once again marred by another paragraph. “What I am saying is recognize how the power of your words and your actions have a direct impact on the very lives that you’re tweeting ‘matter.’ Understand how saying “All Lives Matter” makes you compliant with a system that supports those words while writing in the fine print ‘except if you’re black,’” Tomlin-Crutchfield says towards the end.
Shouldn’t he be making a call for those in Black Lives Matter to recognize the power of their words and actions? Or is that too much to ask for?
To borrow Tomlin-Crutchfield’s phrase, one could also say “except if you’re a police officer.” That Black Lives Matter takes issue with “All Lives Matter” is at least a show of honesty. Protesters shut down campus events, call for coups, yell “f*ck the police,” verbally assault students they target for being white, tweet that white and blue lives don’t matter, and tear down police memorial displays. They get away with it while those who dare to take a different stance are the ones punished.
