The insidious violence of #AllLivesMatter
In the social media battleground over race and policing, the debate seems to be a matter of two warring hashtags: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter. Recently, another symbolic manifestation of that war—aside from police brutality and killing of unarmed black people—happened in living color, on a brick wall in Ottawa, Canada.
A mural of the late activist Sandra Bland, a woman deeply inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, was defaced just one day after it was erected. The vandals tagged “All Lives Matter” over Bland’s name, and scribbled racial slurs over her face, outraging many supporters of the #BlackLivesMatter movement—and forcing the community to unite for a restoration effort.
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