With the deepest respect of your posts helping with harm reduction, drug education and yes, even your Abyss posts
, no I am not trolliing.
I am suggesting that all is not as it seems. Just 'cos she's holding it does not mean that she wrote it, or that she understand what the message is, or that she has 3rd party influence (who may have also had 3rd party influence) in writing it.
My point? Yes it does matter who incentivized her to write it and what that person's agenda is.
Do black lives matter? Of course they f'ing matter, just as any lives matter.
Are people oppressed because of their skin color/religion/life choices? Yes they are.
Should they be martyred/deified/made into political or humanitarian rallying cry because they suffered oppression? Yes, in certain circumstances (Mahatma Ghandi/Nelson Mandela/Martin Luther King).
Should we automatically rise up due to media hype around the unfortunate death of a man at the hands of the police? Should we march out onto the streets and burn down out neighborhoods? Should we attack innocent bystanders trying to defend their livelihoods? I'll leave that answer to you.
What's your point? That more black-skinned folk are killed by police in the U.S. than white-skinned folk? Let me ask you, per capita, what percentage of violent crime is committed by what skin-color in the U.S.?
