Mansour Jamal Ibrahim
The Black Lives Matter movement started on social media after the aquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of African-American teen Trayvon Martin back in 2013. Many people missunderstood (and still don’t understand) the meaning and purpose of BLM and started the All Lives Matter campaign to include the importance of all races and people.
People fail to understand that by saying ‘all lives matter’ you’re just neglecting the institutional racisme and oppression against black people.
Every human life matters, however black people are being systematicaly targeted and oppressed by court rooms and armed police forces right now. It’s only natural that we should support the BLM campaign.
So Twitter started to remind us how all lives didn’t matter and how some people can be hypocrites in terms of outrage on violence. Here are some of the best tweets.
This is too deep:
#AllLivesDidntMatter until somebody said black ones did…
— Next Black President (@YoungNino215_) July 11, 2016
It’s been a year already since Sandra Bland died in police custody:
#AllLivesDidntMatter when Sandra bland spent three days in jail for a traffic violation, then turned up dead
— Black Girl Culture (@melaninist) July 11, 2016
“They should’ve just obeyed the law”, please don’t get us started:
#AllLivesDidntMatter when people were grieving hard for a gorilla but when it comes to innocent blacks killed by police brutality, crickets
— Ronnie (@9ineWaves) July 11, 2016
The people of Flint, Michigan have been struggling for almost a year now.
#AllLivesDidntMatter when the people of Flint, Michigan didn't have any water to drink and are still bathing with bottled water!
— Jerome Trammel (@MrJeromeTrammel) July 11, 2016
The Syrian civil war went its 5th year last March:
#alllivesdidntmatter when y'all made up 10 million excuses as to why syrian refugees couldn't enter your countries
— #1 kimberly hater (@apunkgrl) July 11, 2016
The KKK just celebrated it’s 150th year of existence:
https://twitter.com/BeygoodShanie/status/752509440679641088
This sums it all up:
I will tell you why #BlackLivesMatter, bc we never said #AllLivesDidntMatter, it's just that #BlackLives need all support right now in the 🌎
— Tae Gibbs (@CoachTaeGibbs) July 7, 2016
Not to forget the shooting of Dylan Noble by Fresno PD last month and how All Lives Matter supporters were surprisingly silent on his death:
https://twitter.com/BlvckConscious/status/751552850967289856
It’s safe to say that the ALM operation is simply to silence the BLM movement and not to actually demand justice for useless violence. The BLM movement sympathised more with Dylan Noble (a white male) than ALM ever could.
