All Lives Matter
- Judy Klemos
- Sep 5, 2015
- 2 min read
Yes, I understand why the 'Black Lives Matter' campaign has started, however it has degenerated into hatred quickly. Have you heard that? "Pigs in blankets. Fry 'em like bacon." Now, it is being said it was out of context and it was playful banter. That makes me shudder. There's nothing playful about this whole thing!!
Aren't you tired of having the same struggle over and over? We have a history FULL of this struggle because we haven't realized that indeed ALL lives matter!! Nope. We go piece by piece so that we can draaaaaaag it out as long as we can.
In our history we've established this as our pattern. You've only to study the timeline of voting rights history to really understand this.
http://www.kqed.org/assets/pdf/education/digitalmedia/us-voting-rights-timeline.pdf
The privilege (yes, I said privilege not right, because a right would be automatically extended to every citizen upon implementation) was gifted to property owning white men first. And from that privilege many other privileges were automatically administered, giving rich white males a far and away head start in the race. And the rest of us that have since 'earned' the right to vote? We had to literally SUFFER for it.
The same goes for the rite of marriage (play on words intended) recently won for gay and lesbian couples. If all lives mattered from the beginning, the civil war, women's suffrage movement, gay rights movement would not have been necessary. "All lives matter" brings everyone regardless of differences, idiosyncracies or prejudice right up to par immediately. It eliminates the unfair treatment of human beings across the board immediately instead of piece by piece.
Black pieces, white pieces, red pieces, yellow pieces, disabled pieces, gay pieces, religious pieces, non-religious pieces, ethnic pieces, heritage pieces, socio-economic pieces, gender pieces, occupational pieces, political pieces, educational pieces, etc.
This piece by piece strategy is just that, a strategy, stemming from that original granting of the voting privilege, intending to keep us so busy being dis-integrated, that our focus is off them. It is playing right into their hands. It keeps them united and us divided into smaller and smaller pieces so that we feel in the minority, when in fact we are the majority.
Don't you see? Everyone belongs to the All Lives Matter campaign. EVERYONE. That makes a whole pie. No one piece bigger or tastier than another. No one with more power than another. Until we see ourselves as a united pie, and not different pieces vying for validation, there can be no equality.
There is no peace in pieces.
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