I've never understood how someone saying their life mattered was a controversial topic. How do people have a problem with someone saying their life matters? Why does saying "black lives matter" make people uncomfortable? I have no idea where people are getting "saying black lives matter is saying your life matters more than everyone else's". It isn't saying that at all. For example, if your significant other said you were beautiful, in that statement did they ever say all other women are ugly?

How come people have no problem saying "all lives matter" or "blue lives matter", but it is too controversial to say "black lives matter"? If people were saying "all lives matter" before anyone had to say "black lives matter", there would be no problem. But that isn't the case. The sole purpose of saying "all lives matter" is basically a phrase used to silence a group of people. A group of people who, in the United States, were not even considered human for hundreds of years. Everyone keeps saying "that was a long time ago. Get over it". It wasn't that long ago because my living grandmother was out marching with MLK for basic human rights. Just because laws have changed doesn't mean people's mindsets have.

One thing I have noticed is some of the people who say "all lives matter" will start their sentence off by saying "black lives don't matter". Then, to support that, they try to justify these unjust killings, and then bring up many problems with the Black community with no solutions. I am a firm believer in if you have no intention to provide solutions to these problems, don't speak of them to support your ignorant cause.

I'm just not understanding the issue with the phrase.

When the Pulse nightclub shooting happened, everyone had a heart. We all felt sympathy towards the victims. People that are not a part of the LGBT community had no problem post their flag. No one tried to compare tragedies. We knew there were other things going on in the world, but for that moment we focused on the Pulse nightclub victims.

But when people say "black lives matter", people love to bring up other tragedies, and say things like "well, not only black people are being killed", they love to bring up unnecessary statistics, and love trying to justify these people deaths. But when Pulse happened, everyone somehow found a heart and found sympathy. They didn't say "well, gay people aren't the only ones being killed".

If you don't understand the purpose in saying "Black Lives Matter", all it takes is a few minutes out of your day to ask someone instead of jumping to conclusions. But when you ask, you have to be willing to open your ears, mind, and heart.