But the question isn’t simply what’s true; the question is what needs to be said and done now, in this place and in this moment given this particular history. To assert that “All Lives Matter” as a response to “Black Lives Matter” is not wrong in principle but temporally. It fails to recognize that “Black Lives Matter” is something that has to be said here and now because of a specific (contingent) history that got us here. The assertion of the ideal, timeless truth that “All Lives Matter” is performatively false in such a situation. It lacks prudence and does not constitute faithful witness
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