One of these fine (?) days I am going to sit down and hammer out a post about my trip to my new home on Vancouver Island, and my adventures in moving house. But today is not that day.
Today, all I want to say is this:
BLACK LIVES MATTER
💔 Rock on,
The WB
BLACK LIVES MATTER
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Leslie xoxo
It shatters me…
Yes they do!
Yup. They most certainly do.
Although I do look forward to that promised post.
YES!
As do ALL colours.
True dat, my friend. Looking forward to news of your latest adventure.
Hi Erica/Erika … yes it’s truly important for everyone in this world.
Hope you’re settling in … take care – Hilary
Thanks Hilary. It’s Deb.😁
ALL lives matter! Hope you settled in nicely!
If only that could be the reality, Liesbet, that All Lives Matter. However, we are shown every day that it is not. Therefore, I feel the need to say that Black Lives Matter (too).
Not settled in yet – furniture and car still to arrive! Then the settling in begins!😄
Agreed. I am so heartbroken for my friends who are POC, and feel so helpless. #BlackLivesMatter
Kim
That’s the most important thing any one of us can say right now. Hugs…
🤗💕
All lives do matter. When the population will wake up and embrace that fact is the question. John Lennon got it right with “Imagine”.
Like so many, I am appalled that we are still having to have this discussion but sadly, we are. As human beings, we have to do better. We must learn to speak up, no matter how uncomfortable it may feel. We must look with ourselves to truly ask, what can I do help people of all colour and put a stop to this madness. 💕
Well said💕
YES they do! Congrats on the move, though I am sure JoAnn is a little bummed.
Thank you Pam💕
ALL LIVES MATTER! Racism … from all sides … needs to stop. That includes black racism towards “whites” – which isn’t even a real skin color. Aborted lives matter. Police lives matter. Favoring 1 life over another is wrong on every level – and that favoring of 1 life over another is WHY racism will never end. When it is okay for one race … or 1 living life … to decide another race or a baby needs to be demeaned and/or killed, no one wins if everyone is wrong. ALL LIVES MATTER. Just sayin.
Supporting the Black Lives Matter movement is not favouring one race over another. It is supporting racial justice for black people. Please read up why it is important, especially for those of us born with privilege, to speak up and support this movement. And you should know, Valeria, that I am firmly for a woman’s right to have autonomy over her body and no one else has the right to decide what she can and cannot do with it.
Senseless tragedy. All lives matter.
Please check out this link:
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a27075028/black-lives-matter-explained/?fbclid=IwAR07H9Qr25idAqw_I1QAGr5YfqyySdTeGXw46DEyJAmKgVQ31GZU39g1jIw
Hi Deb! I must confess that I once thought that it was perfectly acceptable to say, “All lives matter” like so many others….but as you point out, it isn’t a denial of life for others when we say, “Black Lives Matter”…it is simply the acknowledgement that they have from the very beginning of their lives had to climb from a lower rung of the ladder than any of us in the white community. It is also saying that it is time for blacks to take an equal footing in all things and that only happens when we openly acknowledge that #BlackLivesMatter. It took me a while to “get” that but it is finally very clear to me…I trust that as it is explained, more and more others will realize the distinction too. ~Kathy
Thank you Kathy 💕I know I need to further my education about systemic racism and privilege too. Some people are posting reading lists (by black writers) and I plan to borrow and read those recommended books, to that end.
Please share what you read. I’d like to read more in this area too.
I have placed holds on White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo), Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates), and The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas). Popular books, because it will be months before it’s my turn at the library for these!😟
Not sure if I tried and it took or not. So agree with you on this. Blac Lives Matter.
Thanks for commenting, Barbara!😄
Ann has posted a link to a great compilation of reads on this topic.
Jude
BLM, Baby! Black Lives Matter! Mona
Thank you, Mona 😁
YES YES BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!!
We all need to focus on making changes, on calling out racist people or acts and acknowledging the history of suppression and oppression that still tragically continues.
Peta
Preach, sister!💕