A clash between Trump supporters and a Black Lives Matter protester in Alabama is a reminder of the toxicity of the ‘all lives matter’ sloganAs disturbing as it is to watch that video of a black protester being beaten and dragged out of a Donald Trump speech in Alabama on Saturday,you should watch it. Everybody should, if only for the clarity that it brings to a phrase that’s been hampering public discourse about racism in America for the past two years : “all lives matter”.
The well-known part starts around the one-minute label of the original video, and when the protester is pulled up off the floor and led absent by members of the event security staff and some of the more aggressive volunteers from the crowd. The man is wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Black Lives Matter”. At least one Trump supporter standing near the video camera starts chanting a refutation: “All lives matter.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com