[Serious] What's an offensive, but legitimate question you want to know the answer to?

The entire "movement" stemmed from a police officer shooting a criminal. Black-on-black violence is an everyday occurrence in America. Gang members gun down opposing gang members everyday of the week and no one bats an eye.

Criminals are still around. People understand this. It's terrible, but when they get caught justice gets served.

But a white police officer shoots a black person and the entire country is up in arms. It is by far the most illogical argument in the history of mankind.

But police have shot and killed black people and gotten away free. That's the major difference. If they were treated like criminals like every other crime, it wouldn't be quite the same issue.

Now, at this point I should mention that I disagree with some of the people that the BLM gets behind. Some of these people did act in a violent and aggressive way and, as such, the officers in these situations were not wrong.

But that doesn't mean that there are cops who do the same thing to innocent black men and get away with it. That's the issue.

I'm saying that an argument needs to have some kind of logical evidence to backup its validity. This movement has none. Show me a case of a black man sitting in his house watching TV, and a white police officer barging in and shooting him dead for no apparent reason.

There are plenty of situations of an innocent man getting shot by an officer. Unfortunately the BLM movement seems to focus on someone like Brown who isn't a great example.

All lives matter.

No shit. Just because people, or a group, focus on one section of a whole does not mean they are shunning the rest. Just because you focus on black lives because, hey -- some shitty stuff STILL HAPPENS to black people, doesn't mean you think that white or asian or any other ethnicity doesn't matter.

Even if you have issues with how the 'movement' is handled you should be able to understand what the idea it's about is.

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