" "So, Why Should You Care? Black Americans are more than twice as likely as white Americans to be unarmed when killed during police encounters, according The Guardian’s recent analysis of public records and local news reports. ...
The counterargument that all lives matter has been misappropriated practically since Black Lives Matter first emerged as a Twitter hashtag following George Zimmerman’s acquital in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. In a New York Times column in January, the feminist philosopher Judith Butler said that people using the slogan “all lives matter” are misunderstanding the problem. She put it this way: “If we jump too quickly to the universal formulation ‘all lives matter,’ then we miss the fact that black people have not yet been included in the idea of ‘all lives.’ ” "
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