Mini-rant: Be Less White?

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"All Lives Matter" and "Blue Lives Matter" mean the same as "Black Lives Don't Matter"

I think that you have super imposed your own meaning based on your own history or your perception of recent political movements and events.

To say that I am racist, as people have implied and to say that "All lives matter" is a racist statement simply because i am not saying the present popular BLM statement, i believe is without substance.

You have compared me to someone in history who has used the term "we", to define a particular group of people in a discriminatory way, as the same as my own use of the word "All", although have no evidence that I have used this word in a discriminatory manner.

My use of the word all is, as previously mentioned, not referring to any specific group of people but instead referring to all lives in existence. Why you would misinterpret this based on your knowledge of this other event, I have no idea.

It is not the same. In your example, i guess somewhere along the line people found out that the author of the other phrase was a bigot and misusing the english language in order to discriminate.

You have however no evidence to suggest that I am the same type of person, who misuses the English language in the same way.

As previously stated, my use in the world "All", is in the same manner as the Buddhists of many countries have used the same word All to refer to All sentient beings.

The Buddhist phrase i speak of has been in circulation longer than Christianity and is still in use by Buddhists world wide, as a slogan but also as a holy mantra.

Om Mani Padme Hum, which translates to mean "may all sentient beings be happy"

This saying is older than BLM, and will last longer than BLM.
No one has accused the Buddhists of being racist in their use of the word All.
No one has tried to make out that those who wish all sentient life was happy are discriminating against people in any way.

It would be offensive and ignorant to do so regardless as to what bigot's misuse of the english language you can dig up to fuel your intellectual debate.

I am not against BLMs, although I am acutely aware how those in politics have used such movements to create disharmony between people. To make people identify with their colour of skin to me is ignorant.

I am not asking people to forget their genetic history, heritage or culture. I do think however, such things can be used to fuel disharmony between people who are of the same nature but simply have different skin colour.

I see such identifying with the colour of skin as an obstacle in the way of unity.
Humanity needs unity, not an excuse to segregate or discriminate.

"All Life Matters" means exactly that.
Let all life be seen as sacred.
No one needs to take sides.

Overcome minor differences such as skin colour
by not making it such a big deal

interestingly enough
early Ras Tafari movement was rooted in an uprising among the poor underclass of Jamaicans who perceived Ras Tafari as the messiah. The early Ras Tafari movement thought that Ras Tafari was going to take over the world, and put them in the place of the white people who they saw as their oppressors.

The early Rasta basically wanted to be the oppressors and take revenge for their suffering and their ancestors suffering.
The problem with this is that where does it all stop and not all white people were involved in oppressing them or their ancestors, so taking revenge against those who have done nothing against them is not revenge but crime.

Luckily, Bob Marley and Ras Tafari transformed the movement and the Rasta movement splintered off.
Some Rasta are still black supremacist in nature.

Others are not, and instead preach One Love! Anti-racism, anti-prejudice, anti-oppression.
To me that is the true Ras Tafari. no hate. no colour. Just love.

It didn't work for Rachel

Well IDk maybe all the white people should think about how likely it is for them to get arrested and killed while walking while being white.


Much less likely than getting killed for walking while black as Elijah McClain might tell you, but he's dead so he can't tell us anything. I did read the PDF on the stuff put forward in his investigation.......sounded to me like he got panicky with the cops being all up in his face and so they continued to abuse and harm him while he pleaded with them to just stop.

He got injected with ketamine after he was unresponsive on the ground in hand-cuffs, the paramedics even admit they did not do a proper evaluation of him before injecting him with ketamine and from what I read at the time they injected him he was laying on the ground unresponsive in handcuffs. Like someone needs to be charged with murder, but as far as I know no one was. They figured he had their excuse, 'excited delirium' for him just funny their symptoms of excited delirium coexist exactly with fear. Like when they tell a person to be calm and stop stiffening...the person is probably stiffening and such because they are having fear reactions so like....err they cannot control it. I mean sounds like through McClains whole ordeal he was puking and at one point in the PDF I read of all the evidence they collected at one point he even said he peed on himself and still they would not stop brutalizing the poor man. Like all he did was try and walk away cause he wasn't doing anything wrong and he had his headphones in so it reasonable he would have needed to like stop and take the headphones out to realize what was going on. But the report make it sound like they basically just ambushed the guy and as soon as he got a little freaked out they just started brutalizing him. One cop claimed to another 'dude he was grabbing your gun.' but at this point I would not be suprised if that officer made that part up or if they misinterpreted something. Cause the poor guy after this said he didn't do guns, he wasn't that kind of person and would never hurt a fly so I have doubts that he actually reached for any gun. Maybe he made a movement because they were just grabbing him after he tried to tell them he was jsut different and hadn't been intending any harm. But really the thing is he was injected with ketemine while he was lying in handcuffs unresponsive on the ground, if a paramedic gave that ketamine they should be charged to. To do that they should have checked his vitals and made sure he could handle it but they did nothing of the sort beforehand, he never even got medically examined before getting the ketamine even though at this point he was on the ground and unresponsive. No rational paramedic would inject ketamine into an already subdued and potentially unconscious person like that.

Just upsets me because he had autism....Like imagine if you were just randomly stopped by cops knowing you did nothing wrong and you think you can stick up for your rights like he tried to do. LIke f**k if I get stopped by cops I think I would just immeaditely show my hands and just request they don't kill me because againt their gun I am err kinda defenseless so like here is an idea maybe don't threaten to shoot and/or shoot everyone you stop. And people wonder why people don't want to trust the cops?

I think what Coca Cola means by be less white, is to have an open mind to people of different cultures and races. I think it means to have room in your life for people of different ethnicity, cultures and skin tones. It could also mean to embrace multiculturalism. To see the world as one and to see all the people of the world as equals and potential friends. I do those things because of my beliefs.