Black Lives Matter

It should be evident to anyone who keeps up with the news (even if it's just on Facebook) that there has been a lot of coverage of police officers shooting (and sometimes killing) unarmed black men, often without any clear indication that they were presenting any danger whatsoever to the police. In the wake of several of these killings, the phrase "Black Lives Matter" spread throughout the media, both mainstream and social. Pretty quickly a backlash developed, with "All Lives Matter" and "Police Lives Matter" springing up in some kind of counterpoint. Assuming that you're not a bigot who is offended that the "niggers" are getting "uppity" - you really should have understood that saying that black lives matter is not a suggestion that only black lives matter, it's a reaction to the perception that, due to the seeming epidemic of unarmed black men being shot, black lives don't seem to matter. Perhaps they could have said "Black Lives Matter Too"- but they shouldn't have had to.