If you are a student government leader at the University of Houston and you have the temerity to say that all lives matter, you will quickly become a former student government leader.
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The BlackLivesMatter movement seems to have a lot in common with the goals of the Black Panther party. It appears that the goal of the movement is to decend and protest killings of young black males by non-black police, irregardless of the circumstances of that death. It doesn’t appear to matter that the ‘victim’ may have been committing a violent crime, been trying to kill police officers or innocents, refused to follow orders of police to put down a weapon, or was fleeing arrest – somehow the fact that they are black makes them a victim. But apparently, you are not a victim if your killer is also black – that is just business as usual in the ‘hood, a ‘personal matter within the black community’, or ot so ething for outsiders like whites, police, or government to concern themselves with. And if a white is killed by a police officer under similar circumstznces, it gets at most a shrug. After all, only BLACK lives matter.
This attitude is causing a quiet but nonvoiced ba klash within much of the white community. I have heard the sentiment expresses”well, if that is their zttitude, then just let them kill each other off. If they don’t value their own lives unless killed by a cop, why should anyone else?”
Whites have learned the hard way that young blacks don’t want to be included in greater society. They seem to want black-only enclaves where whites are not welcome. And while whites apparently benefit from the presence of blacks on college campuses, blacks are apparently harmed by it, at least given the rise of so-called “safe zones” on campuses. And to make matters worse, apparently only whites are capable of racism; if blacks do the same things or use hurtful words, whites are suppozed to just grin and take it, as their due for the crime of being born with light skin. Since when did two wrongs make a right?