14 Aug No Lives Matter

Posted at 10:15h in Anecdotes, I Am Time by

“No lives matter.”

— Ice-T

“Black lives matter” is a moral indictment of society, claiming “black people” are poorly treated relative to “whites”.

“All lives matter” is a self-righteous, dismissive  response; implying all people matter, regardless of their racial identities.

“No lives matter” is social realism. The incarceration rate, domestic murder rate, “cancel culture” and brutalities in overseas military adventures demonstrate society doesn’t value people generally.

Fancy funerals and memorials suggest respect for the dead but not the living.