#BLM vs All Lives matter

I hope that’s this posts reaches a few people before it gets deleted... and I only anticipate that it will get deleted because it’s not much of a controversy but more of an apology.

This is the only “social media” I really have so it’s the only place I feel I can put it.

But I am sorry. To the black community I am so so sorry that it took George Floyd’s death for me to fully grasp the BLM movement. I WAS that white girl, sitting on the sidelines for years thinking “no, all lives matter”. And when I truly kept telling myself that all lives matter it was because I didn’t see the racism. I thought I was being a bigger person by thinking that every life is precious, and why would we focus on ONE race? I was blind to my ignorance. My ignorance came from trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. All of the deaths by cops in the past that have sparked the BLM movement I would hope and pray that the cop wasn’t truly racist. That they made a mistake. That there could be no way their decision was racially driven. I didn’t want to think the worst. While I knew racism existed, I didn’t want to give into the idea that people would truly kill another human being due to their race.

But then George Floyd died. To watch that video there is no doubt in my mind that the cop pinned him by his neck because he was a black man.

I. Am. Sorry.

I am so soooooo sorry.

I am sorry that I am late to the movement. I am sorry that my intentions on wanting to show that I cared about “everyone” shadowed your movement taking away your thunder.

And I hope that many other “all lives matter” supporters out there make the same realization that I did.

I. Am. Sorry