As a historian, I have seen the treatment of minorities in this country and it does suck. A lot of things that have happened to minorities are a result of bigotry. The distrust of police officers (whom I have much respect for) did not come out of no where. Things that people have complained about for years but could not prove are now coming to light. Policies that were put in place such as red lining to keep certain people out of various neighborhoods has been admitted to have been purposely done. I met a college student from Mississippi who cannot go to the public swimming pool in her neighborhood today because minorities are not allowed. Chicago just admitted to terrorizing minorities for years, with the now retired and still receiving a pension police chief torturing confessions out of people, maiming them and imprisoning people falsely. So, yes, Black Lives do Matter. If all lives truly mattered, which they do, then minorities would not be left out in the cold, which many are.
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