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If “All Lives Matter,” Please Point To The Date/Event When All Lives Began To Truly Matter
I don’t quite understand the response “All Lives Matter” as a counter to “Black Lives Matter.” It has the vague quality of one-up-manship; worse, it acts as a retort — an argumentative chess move — without any attempt at understanding or empathy. This retort diminishes the plea of desperation by artificially expanding the desperation to everyone. It echoes the old petition “We are separate!” and the Plessy retort “Yet we are all equal!”
You Have A Choice: Snap Back or Love Back
I really didn’t want to write into this …. there are people I respect dearly who will disagree with my thinking. But this was sparked by the failings of “Christ-like love.” Specifically, a Christian who furiously called out a preacher for simply saying* “Black Lives Matter.” This call-out in a nutshell:
I’m angry to hear BLM preached. All Lives Matter! Politics has no place in the church.
We’ll ignore the fact that “politics” …. more than ever … has become a function of faith. Or that “politics” — a word blanched of Christianity — can be painted over the things we — as Christians — should care about: equality, justice, brotherhood, peace, compassion, etc.
