"All lives will not matter until black lives matter."
"All lives" includes black lives. That's literally a complete nonsense sentence. People who say "all lives matter" aren't silently excluding black lives; they're simply pointing out that the national dialog is completely skewed in favor of discussing only the importance of black lives.
By contrast, the statement "black lives matter" is inherently exclusive. If the argument is that "they're just indicating that black lives matter the same as everyone else's", then congratulations, you essentially just said "all lives matter" in a roundabout way. Otherwise, you are by default saying that black lives matter but the lives of others don't.
"All lives" includes black lives. That's literally a complete nonsense sentence. People who say "all lives matter" aren't silently excluding black lives; they're simply pointing out that the national dialog is completely skewed in favor of discussing only the importance of black lives.
By contrast, the statement "black lives matter" is inherently exclusive. If the argument is that "they're just indicating that black lives matter the same as everyone else's", then congratulations, you essentially just said "all lives matter" in a roundabout way. Otherwise, you are by default saying that black lives matter but the lives of others don't.
Exactly. By only focusing on one race, you are saying the other races don't matter. You're being racist.