The Truth of ‘Black Lives Matter’
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“…The “Black Lives Matter” movement focuses on the fact that black citizens
have long been far more likely than whites to die
at the hands of the police, and is of a piece with this history.
Demonstrators who chant the phrase are making the same declaration
that voting rights and civil rights activists made a half-century ago.
They are not asserting that black lives are more precious than white lives.
They are underlining an indisputable fact
— that the lives of black citizens in this country historically have not mattered,
and have been discounted and devalued.
People who are unacquainted with this history are
understandably uncomfortable with the language of the movement.
But politicians who know better and seek to strip this issue
of its racial content and context are acting in bad faith.
They are trying to cover up an unpleasant truth
and
asking the country to collude with them.“
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I CAN FEEL: YOUR SKIN Catherine L. Johnson 2015
CATHERINE L. JOHNSON 
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