After a series of publicized cases of police brutality or alleged police brutality in black communities, the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter continues to thread the movement to reform police/community relations.
And this week, the related hashtag #AllLivesMatter is also trending again.
For instance, #AllLivesMatter is the central message in a dramatic photo of Memphis firefighters holding up signs with political messages.
So that’s the end of the story, right? Except it’s not. Instead, it’s part of the national dialogue.
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Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea to use #AllLivesMatter as a response to the slogan #BlackLivesMatter.
The president of Smith College apologized last December for writing "all lives matter," saying she had not realized how politically fueled the phrase had become. (Source: FoxNews.com)
Twitter user Arthur Chu had this witty remark about changing the phrase #blacklivesmatter to #alllivesmatter:
Wherever you stand on the issue, here is another part of the story:
The phrase#BlackLivesMatter goes back earlier than the most recent cases of alleged police brutality.
Activist Alicia Garza, of Oakland, Calif., and two friends started the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the murder of Trayvon Martin almost two years ago. (Source: BillMoyers.com)
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