For every black person that declares his or her life matters, there are at least a dozen hurt white people shouting “all lives matter” at them instead of trying to understand why saying #BlackLivesMatter is necessary in the first place.
This phenomenon is old and tired ― and black people are fed up. So the folks on Twitter decided to call out the “all lives matter-ers” on their bulls**t.
Tweeting the hashtag #AllLivesDidntMatter, black, Latino and other users of color shared some historical and present-day facts about race that suggested that all lives, in fact, haven’t mattered when it came to systematic oppression in the U.S.
The hashtag was likely first tweeted in 2015, and it was revived when it started trending on Monday. Take a look at these on-point tweets that get real about why it can be argued that historically all lives really haven’t mattered in America.
#AllLivesDidntMatter when they were pouring money into mass incarceration instead of public education in poor neighborhoods
— 28 savage (@OGSavTyrell) July 8, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when Zimmerman shot & killed Trayvon Martin & got away with it enough to be able to sell the gun he used on the murder.
— #BLACKLIVESMATTER (@ephrizzy) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when these 4 little girls were killed in a bombing while they were at church pic.twitter.com/eGb2mqYJ9A
— ❄️✨ (@TyStephaun) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when the shooters in Dallas were deemed murders, but the officers who killed two innocent men weren't deemed the same
— Sharon (@ShayOJay) July 8, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when people were grieving hard for a gorilla but when it comes to innocent blacks killed by police brutality, crickets
— WAVE$ (@ronniewaves) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesdidntmatter when African American, Latina, and Native women were sterilized without knowing to keep our populations down (1965).
— hi (@tiriabrill) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when a white boy was caught raping a girl & was sentenced to 6 months but only required to serve 3.
— #ThickLivesMatter ⚢ (@GotThatFaceDoh) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when y'all ignored Hurricane Katrina back in 2006 when Bush didn't even budge to go help the flood victims
— ✈️KDG Nuski⛽️⭐️ (@BallOutRahkeem) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when they didn't include the rest of American history in books to only teach us about white American contributions.
— 1-800-WOKE-AF (@gloed_up) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when Syrian refugees needed somewhere to go.
— Henna (@hennaahmedx) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when the people of Flint, Michigan didn't have any water to drink and are still bathing with bottled water!
— Jerome Trammel (@MrJeromeTrammel) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when cops pulled a drive by on a 12 year old Tamir Rice playing in a park, then tried to blame him for his own death
— Almond Brown (@HollaBlackGirl) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when you still refer to people coming to your country for a better life as "aliens" and "illegals"
— Allison (@allisonlmack) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when Sandra bland spent three days in jail for a traffic violation, then turned up dead
— #BLACKLIVESMATTER (@melaninist) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter When Josefa Segovia was the first Mexican-American to be lynched in Cali for defending herself after being assaulted🤔
— Chillen (@CeeJ_TX) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter When you took 600 African Americans and gave them syphilis just to see how it would affect them. And never treated them
— ❄️✨ (@TyStephaun) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when Native Americans were raped, pillaged and forced from their homes
— Dick Tiger (@frankwilheel) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when 91% of Africa was colonized inciting genocide, corruption & decades of instability. pic.twitter.com/zPxBSnfq28
— Eryk Beardu (@_IAint_NoG00d) July 11, 2016
I will tell you why #BlackLivesMatter, bc we never said #AllLivesDidntMatter, it's just that #BlackLives need all support right now in the 🌎
— Tae Gibbs (@CoachTaeGibbs) July 7, 2016
Think about that #AllLivesDidntMatter pic.twitter.com/duXCq2rv27
— Churchboy (@churchboy27) July 11, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter and they won't until WE ALL understand wtf is going on. Start a race war ?? Nah we trynna end one.
— Good Vibes✌️ (@marleyymee) July 11, 2016
In short, stop trying to drown out the cries of the marginalized with your white tears and all lives matter BS. Just saying.
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