What is your Interpretation of the Slogan "Black Lives Matter"?

I like what SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" said. To add to it, I interpret it mean African Americans should look inwards AND outwards in regards to such situations. I'll make this rant as short as possible. Pants should go on the waist. Belts and suspenders can assist. The "N" has little place anywhere in one's vocabulary. Black on black crimes and other acts of disrespect toward one another contradict the progress of becoming an equal race. It's so easy for some to blame people of another skin color instead of looking around and looking in a mirror. End rant.

2024 update: I wrote the above in 2016 when I was only focused on what happens within the Black community, not the white supremacy and systemic anti-Black racism that are well proven to have kept Black Americans/ADOS at a huge disadvantage for centuries. I don't remember what JP said, but SFC (Join to see) was right to call me out on the fact that my initial response doesn't "correlate to whether or not someone is getting harassed or gunned down by law enforcement." I didn't mention the 13th Amendment (watch the Netflix documentary) , school to prison pipeline, racial profiling stats, or anti-Black misandry as the primary target of White supremacy (watch Dr. Tommy Curry's video on this), all which underline the BLM movement.

Updated answer: "Black lives matter" is a complete sentence that means exactly that and nothing more or less.

I fully explained my stance on the BLM phrase, organization, and movement, and issues with common counter-arguments, in a 2022 blog post:
https://jtspratley.com/blog/complex-layers-of-racism

RP thread for that blog post: https://www.rallypoint.com/shared-links/complex-layers-of-racism

"We’re not saying Black lives matter more, we’re saying they matter too." - Melissa DePino, co-founder of From Privilege to Progress

"What's the f****** point of contention?" - Will Smith

It is a racist slogan.
When non blacks counter with All Lives Matter a fight starts.
It seems that to most people using this statement only Black Lives Matter.
It seems to be starting a new race war. The media builds up black deaths by any other race but does not speak of the black on black deaths which are exponentially higher.

And this will seperate our country even more.

All Life Matters.

Of course black lives matter as do all lives.

I really think we need to quit the "--------" lives matter as an expression that any are either more important or less important.

All lives matter. God is the only One that creates and takes a life...Not Man!

It is a slogan that needs to quit being used. Of course black lives matter. But it serves more to divide rather than what this great nation needs.....UNITY. I wish I could write more but I am dealing with some RallyPoint problem with my profile that locks me up after x amount of words.

What i'm going to say is going to be slammed by several, but it needs to be said. I'm going to start off with a few questions that I really need people to ask themselves before they respond.

Why don't we see black people in front of media outlets protesting their lack of coverage regarding black on black crimes plaguing cities like Detroit, Chicago and Baltimore?

Why aren't black people protesting in front of the planned parenthood clinics where more black babies aborted than any other ethnicity?

Why aren't black people protesting the politicians who support planned parenthood, an institution created by the eugenic racists who advocated the forced sterilization of black people during the early 20th century?

Why aren't Woodrow Wilsons' schools being attacked the same way confederate mementos are when he segregated the government and the first film to debut in the white house was a KKK recruitment film, "Birth of a Nation." under his watch?

Why is it OK for white democrats to attack republicans like Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas, Alan West, Condoleeza Rice, Tim Scott et. al. when it's not OK when the roles and politics are reversed?

If Black Lives Matter, why are some excluded because they are in the womb or adhere to a different political ideology?

Last question prefaced by a statement, if I was black and I was told that a law (Affirmative Action) had to be created so that I can succeed in society, I would ask those advocating that law, do you not believe I have the ability or initiative to succeed without a law, are we not equal under the Equal Protection Clause? If you aspire to the democrat party, why support a political group that doesn't have faith in you as an individual?

Lastly, the CDC stats are extremely telling of a plan laid out over a century ago and I find the support by those American's of African decent for the D party disheartening. I love my family and I love my brothers and sisters in arms no matter their ethnicity. Personally, I do not believe the D's and R's reversed roles. I believe the D leadership changed their tactics and they teach division and hatred since they are in charge of our schools thanks to Jimmy Carter's Department of Education. If I am to be called racist due to the color of my skin, so be it, my family and I know different.

My interpretation? That it's fundamentally racist. In it's literal form of course it's true, because of course black lives matter. As do the lives of every other race, but the moment that anyone rebuts with "all lives matter" that person is vilified. What does that say about a movement when the concept of all lives mattering is worthy of ridicule to them?

Though the initial intent was good, it seemed to have morph into yet another tool to effectively divide races by those with hidden agenda's, and exacerbated further through media reporting. I wish that this slogan would change to "All Lives Matter", and that all races would stand and peacefully be represented the next time a life, ANY life, is taken; as this does affect, and happen to, more than just black lives. That, and I believe most Americans would agree, would be something I and others would more than willing to stand for, especially if it meant that I didn't die needlessly and senselessly during the process by those bent on destruction. I didn't get through 26 and some change in the Armed Forces (thank God) to lose my life in such a senseless and meaningless way...

SPC Andrew Griffin "Stop the Violence" in respects to social violence amongst police brutality and amongst one another!

It is recognition that Black lives, disproportionate to their population, are disposed of with too much callous ease by the agencies that are supposed to be serving and protecting.