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Yes, and also you're wrong. The efforts that will solve this problem for Black people will solve the problem for everyone else, too, or else it's not an acceptable solution.

People are focusing on Black Lives Matter as a rallying cry because the police system is expressing its terrifying lawlessness through overtly racist terror-inducing acts.

The problem won't go away without massive reform to the system. And asking "what about these other people?" in the general context is not useful; asking "what about these other people in the specific context of 'will this proposed solution work for these other people, too?'" is very useful.



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