Do black lives matter to me? (As a white person)

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coby said:
Do lives matter? yes
Does the color or age matter? no
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Ummmm, yes it does. My age matters to me. It means something. I am not 9, 19, 29, 39, or 49. That says something about me.

My color matters to me. It means something. There's this whole genealogy that got me looking like I look, so it means something. We're allowed to think it means something. To deny that is denying a part of our makeup.

What those things means is less than my life as a whole, but it all matters.
 
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Whoever asked the question "DO black lives matter" apparently was not looking at JESUS CHRIST. Why not focus on how HE looked at lives? He declared to a ROMAN soldier that HE had not seen faith that large in ALL of Israel. His very cross was carried to Calvary by Simon of Cyrene...yes...a black man! Later you will find Simon's wife mentioned as a "MOTHER" to Paul, and Rufus, very active in the CHRISTIAN movement of the 1st century. Cornelius was anything but a jewish ruler that GOD gave a direct vision to, eventually having his full household become CHRISTIANS...Samaritans, gentiles, lepers, slaves, prostitutes, tax collectors, and more....All mattered to HIM.....how dare someone think differently. Look through JESUS' eyes and your answer is obvious.
 
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The analogy isn't working for me, since the black culture is focused on the arsonists. Demand the arsonists spend time in prison, so we can tell the arsonists from the non-arsonists. Instead the message is "don't think we're all arsonists," while they protect the ones who are.
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Yes, they really do need to quit protecting the gangsters and drug dealers if they are going to try and claim others are the ones killing their children.
 
hornetguy

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Do black lives matter? Of course. No more or less than ANY human life.

Placing a VALUE on a life is something left up to the individual... hypothetical situations abound.
If a bus was about to run over a couple of people standing at a corner, would you pull to safety the child, or the gang-banger?
That says nothing about which life "matters"... both of them do, but sometimes choices have to be made.
Loving people equally, in that every person is from God, is something that should be taken for granted, among Christians.
 
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Ummmm, yes it does. My age matters to me. It means something. I am not 9, 19, 29, 39, or 49. That says something about me.

My color matters to me. It means something. There's this whole genealogy that got me looking like I look, so it means something. We're allowed to think it means something. To deny that is denying a part of our makeup.

What those things means is less than my life as a whole, but it all matters.
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Yes but if it's about saving a life it doesn't matter.
Well not entirely true for me, since babies go to heaven tbh I care more for someone who isn't saved and wants to do euthanasia. If I could save the life of only one of them I would go for the old one.
 
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Black man: "White lives matter."
White man: "Black lives matter."
Mexican man: "Blue lives matter."
All three men: "ALL LIVES MATTER!"
 
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Colt45Bullet said:
Black man: "White lives matter."
White man: "Black lives matter."
Mexican man: "Blue lives matter."
All three men: "ALL LIVES MATTER!"
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All three men.
Man 1: I got the frankincense.
Man 2: I got the myrrh.
Man 3: Ahh, man! I wanted to bring a good spice too. Guess I'm stuck bringing gold! Nuts!

(Guess where my mind goes when I picture three men. lol)
 
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"White privilege" really does exist. It exists in some of the comments posted on this thread. :(
 
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I think this is what Dude's trying to say.

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popeye

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Obama is half white,half black.

Does BLM see him as "sorta matters"?
 
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Devonmcknight68 said:
Do black lives matter to me? Of course black lives matter to me all lives matter to me. But one particular life that does matter to me more than any other is the life of the unborn child. That life matters to me and it's being slaughtered by the millions and we are more focused on racial diversities when innocent children are being killed. Innocent children who have no one standing up for them who need some one to protect them. At least us as adults have the chance to make decisions that could better our chance of survival but the kids in the womb of their mother are completely dependent on the people on the outside. So when you ask me do black lives matter I say yes and so does every other human beings life no matter what age or how developed that person may be.
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Do black lives matter to me? Of course black lives matter to me all lives matter to me. :)

But one particular life that does matter to me more than any other is the life of the unborn child. That life matters to me and it's being slaughtered by the millions and we are more focused on racial diversities when innocent children are being killed. Innocent children who have no one standing up for them who need some one to protect them. The lives of the unborn matter to me as much as that of an innocent born person.

Innocent children who have no one standing up for them who need some one to protect them. At least us as adults have the chance to make decisions that could better our chance of survival but the kids in the womb of their mother are completely dependent on the people on the outside. Unborn are given the death penalty(abortion) before they have committed a crime and without a voice in the matter. It's the pro-life community that gives them the only voice they will get. We treat them like valuable lives with potential instead of as "blobs of tissue" or "products of conception" or "a pregnancy" or "a fetus".

So when you ask me do black lives matter I say yes and so does every other human beings life no matter what age or how developed that person may be. As you here emphasized your original thoughts again, I'll add that the percentage of abortions in the black community is significantly higher than in other ethnic backgrounds. Whereas the abortion rate is 8% to 17% in other ethnicities, it is just shy of 30% in the black community. Awful! Being pro-life, then, asserts the dignity of all unborn humans, and perhaps especially asserts that all unborn black lives matter since they are proportionally the ones least likely to be born.

So...

German American lives matter.
Irish American lives matter.
Norwegian American lives matter.
Polish American lives matter.
Scottish American lives matter.
Russian American lives matter.
African American/Black lives matter.
Native American lives matter.
Swedish American lives matter
...and I know I'm missing many...but they matter too. :)
 
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skin pigments are irrelevant, if you don't like who you are maybe it's something surgical so you can be apart of the fake false temporary pleasantries of this world and it's views.

Anyways, i heard on the radio that teenagers and such can choose abortion without consent, meaning they (parents/guardians) may never know. That's low, I think some lady made a petition about it. Still abortion is just another condom or birth control remedy. At least Christians can stray away from it.

Also, I think the adoption route is a good one for those who can't take care of, or don't want kids and just had to not practice abstinence cause i would rather not see children growing up in houses of violence or feeling unloved or unwanted.
 
Dude653

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White privilege is shooting 9 people in a church and being taken to Burger King
 
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AuntieAnt said:
"White privilege" really does exist. It exists in some of the comments posted on this thread. :(
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Which comments are you referring to? It seems that everyone here is on board with ALL lives being equally important... I also sense that most people on here are saying that criminals, thugs, rapists, child murderers, etc should NOT be protected or respected, no matter WHAT color they are.
How does that reflect "white privilege" ?

Not trying to argue, just curious as to your perception of what's been stated here...
 
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IMO, killers, rapists and such scum, get what they deserve, sooner or later.. jmo
 
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First of all what is the definition of a thug? And why would it be grouped in the same category as child murderers and rapists? Notice how the new guy named hornet guy said "criminals and thugs." So apparently a criminal and thug aren't the same thing. Is this just an excuse to dehumanize people with baggy jeans and LRG shirts. Or is thug the new replacement for n****er so you can call black people something with out being called a racist? Before we throw the word thug around at least give it a definition so we can know what YOU PEOPLE mean when you say thug this and thug that. Apparently, to hornet guy and most likely many other of you conservative right wingers a thug is to be put in the same bag as pedophiles and rapists.
 
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phil38111 said:
First of all what is the definition of a thug? And why would it be grouped in the same category as child murderers and rapists? Notice how the new guy named hornet guy said "criminals and thugs." So apparently a criminal and thug aren't the same thing. Is this just an excuse to dehumanize people with baggy jeans and LRG shirts. Or is thug the new replacement for n****er so you can call black people something with out being called a racist? Before we throw the word thug around at least give it a definition so we can know what YOU PEOPLE mean when you say thug this and thug that. Apparently, to hornet guy and most likely many other of you conservative right wingers a thug is to be put in the same bag as pedophiles and rapists.
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Folks want to act like thugs...folks will treat them like thugs. Black thugs matter is nothing but a bunch of racist losers.
 
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