1001 Black Men #794

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Alternative Press Expo Attendee, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California.

 

Everybody would say “of course all lives matter”. Our philosophical, religious and moral sensibilities would all say that, but in fact, many people don’t matter. When we say “black lives matter”, it’s a hashtag. It’s a movement. Die-ins are happening all over the country, protest movements around that phrase “black lives matter” because young black men haven’t mattered in the country and the criminal justice system has treated them very differently than my young white sons.

–“Jim Wallis: ‘Ferguson is a parable about how black men are treated’“, an interview by Alec Hogg

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