Does All Lives Matter Have a Liberal Counterpart?

My two cents on the We Believe signs, maybe they share the same conceptual base as All Lives Matter

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Ok, everyone. It’s been two years. Two years since George Floyd’s murder. And according to research, there is a decline in support for police accountability, reform, and defunding among all racial groups. And according to Robin Worlobah, the first Black and socialist councilmember in Minneapolis, after George Floyd’s murder, the momentum for change has “gone backward.” The reforms championed by working-class people to defund the police, make police more accountable, and find an alternative public safety system have been blocked by propaganda campaigns from the elite, and the unelected Charter Commissions have blocked legislative demands at all levels of government.

We feel the shift around the country, as support for BLM as a movement is waning across all racial groups, but least so with Black people. Isn’t it just a symptom of a larger issue? That Black people are the ones most likely to believe that Black Lives Matter?

I was talking to a friend about how, as the president of a nearly all-white association in Peru, I had quit over their blank-faced don’t-give-a-shit reluctance to declare Black Lives Matter in an internal message to our members. My friend replied, “At least they could have said ‘All Lives…