Black Lives Matter Needs To Care About All Black Lives, Not Just The Few Ended By Police

1. Furthermore, activists cannot expect most people to endorse the BLM movement when supporters seem to ignore the facts that black Americans so frequently take the lives of other blacks.
2. It is incredibly important that leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement take an inward look by examining how blacks Americans can create stronger families.
3. Black Lives Matter will not be a legitimate movement until activists begin to care about all lives — not just those killed by the police.
4. It can reasonably be concluded the greater likelihood of black Americans being killed by officers is a result of their higher level of exposure incidents involving police.
5. If major players in the BLM movement care about black lives, then they ought to focus on reforms that can improve the quality of life for black Americans.
6. This proposal will not only result in fewer black Americans being imprisoned, but more resources will be devoted to solving and preventing serious crimes; thereby saving the lives of black Americans who are more likely to be victims of violent crimes.
7. For instance, a study published by Harvard economist Roland Fryer found that black Americans are less likely to be shot by police when compared to their Caucasian counterparts, even when black Americans wield weapons.
8. Although protesting police brutality is entirely legitimate, the BLM movement is built on the specious claim that as a result of systemic racism, black men are disproportionately killed by the police.
9. If BLM leaders care about black lives, they ought to focus on what can improve the quality of life for black Americans — starting with stronger families.
10. It is good that the BLM movement is working to ensure that black Americans are protected from police brutality.
11. Ending the war on marijuana is a worthwhile alternative to reduce hostile interactions between blacks Americans and the police as well as reducing the black incarceration rate.
12. Yet in the article “The Reverse Racism Effect: Are Cops More Hesitant to Shoot Black Than White Suspects?” researchers show that due to trepidation stemming from possible legal and social consequences, police officers are more circumspect when deciding to shoot black suspects than Caucasians.
13. Activists usually invoke the controversial killings of black men by the police to argue that black lives are treated as insignificant in America.
14. The argument that black Americans are inordinately killed by the police when accounting for their size in the population is also fallacious.
15. Cynics postulate if police officers could get away murdering black Americans without facing the consequences, then they would do so.

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