"We The People" Should Unite as "Americans"

Considering the Constitution kind of literally had to be changed to include black people, it seems a bit ironic you bring up editing it like that...

All lives can't matter if black lives don't. That was the jist of BLM. To be included in lives that matter...... In the same way the amendments to the Constitution were about including black people with everyone else with the right to vote, etc.

I would say a better name for BLM might've been something a little more specific about police brutality but eh...

You said, "All lives can't matter if black lives don't." I & millions of others never said they didn't matter. So, your premise is faulty. You are the one with the problem, not me.

The BLM movement isn't about opposition to what you or whoever else said. It is about opposition to police brutality.

The police brutality is blown out of proportion, of course. If you take out the 'failure to follow instructions' and the 'resisting arrest' factor, most of the problems disappear. Look at the BLM leaders purchasing expensive homes rather than utilizing the donations towards helping anybody but themselves. Take the time to research BLM and their ties to Marxism, darko, as it is not a pretty picture.

"Your premise is faulty"...

"You are the one with the problem"...

"Police brutality is overblown"...

"People in the organization are corrupt/greedy"...

"BLM is tied to Marxism"...

I was going to begin this conversation with a statement about "All Lives Matter" being more about opposition/ response to BLM than anything else but I think you kind of demonstrated that for me.

"If you take out the xyz, most of the problems disappear..."

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Some (?) Lives Matter

Darko, I believe in equality. I treat others as I would like to be treated. I was raised that way. I don't treat people of wealth any differently than poor people. I think all lives matter and have always thought that all babies' lives matter. Period.

Bigger picture it's not really about you personally but ok.👍

Your meme is kinda like the chicken or the egg though.

Did BLM create the divided house or did the divided house create BLM.....?

Your meme is against everything on which this country was founded and everything we stand for. Suggest you pick another country, darko.

It's actually a Martin Luther King Jr. quote....

Not necessarily saying I agree with it... I just mention it in context of our conversation about BLM, perceived Marxism, and your meme which mentions part of a different MLK quote.

Martin Luther King was a Republican. When that was written they had poll taxes, literacy tests, particularly in the south, where most white people were Democrats.

The Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act were passed into law and the black participation in voting and politics increased dramatically. Most white Democrats are now white Republicans in the south.

That is our history. To go back further in our history, after the Civil War, the first black congressmen elected from the South were elected as Republicans, not Democrats.

? He was republican (allegedly).. and white democrats in the south became republicans...? Idk where you are going with that or like.. why you're bringing dem vs repub into it now ? Or what your source is on his political party for that matter...

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, he wasn't officially repub or dem.

He was not formally affiliated with either political party. Nor did he explicitly endorse any candidate. In fact, he stated, “I don’t think the Republican Party is a party full of the almighty God, nor is the Democratic Party. They both have weaknesses. I’m not inextricably bound to either party.”

King biographer David J. Garrow claims King was fond of some Republican politicians, such as Richard Nixon, although it is almost certain that he voted for Democrats JFK in 1960 and Lyndon Johnson in 1964. (According to Time.com, JFK had called a governor to try and get him out of jail once when he got sentenced to 6 months hard labor over a protest... Nixon did nothing. And this led to MLK to kind of flip on Nixon.... " this is why I really considered him [Nixon] a moral coward and one who was really unwilling to take a courageous step and take a risk. And I am convinced that he lost the election because of that. ")

He also denounced Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, who, as a senator, had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. King said in an interview, “I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.” Although King supported Johnson’s presidential campaign, he later spoke out about his dissatisfaction with Johnson’s handling of the Vietnam War.