When you try and turn #BlackLivesMatter into All Lives Matter, what you’re saying is “I don’t feel included.” You’re saying “I don’t feel like a part of the conversation.” Here’s the thing, though. White people aren’t a part of the movement, because the movement is about the oppression involved in institutional racism, and that’s something white people have NEVER experienced. Plain and simple. It isn’t including you because it isn’t about you. It’s easy to say “screw cultural identities, we’re all human” when your culture is not the one being exploited, marginalized and oppressed. It’s easy to say “screw borders” when your country is the one who puts up the borders. And it is really freaking easy to say “we all bleed red” when it’s not bodies of your people riddled with bullets because Western capitalism has a price. #notallwhitepeople - no, just enough so that we can be murdered without consequence.
