Billie Eilish decided to explain why the slogan "All Lives Matter" does not have to be. This hashtag was born in response to the "Black Lives Matter" movement, formed in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a white man who killed 17 year old African American teenager Trayvon Martin with a gun while he was going home. The hashtag "All Lives Matter" is often used in the United States by right-wing and conservative politicians and media.
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"If I hear someone say" All lives count "again, I'm going to go nuts. Do you want to shut up ??? No one says your life is unimportant. No one says that your life is not difficult. (…) All you do is find a way to bring everything back to you. It is not about you. You are not in need. You are not in danger (I am trying to explain this as if you were a child, because you give the impression that it is the only way to make you understand things) (…) You are privileged that you like it or not. Society gives you privileges simply because you are white. You can be poor and have difficulties, your skin color gives you more privileges, "said the 18-year-old artist in a long post on Instagram.
The white privilege
The Bad Guy interpreter then explained his point. "If all lives count, why are black people killed just because they are black?" Why are immigrants persecuted? Why do white people have opportunities that people with another skin color don't have? Why are white people allowed to demonstrate by wearing a semi-automatic? Why can black people be treated as criminals when they demonstrate against the murder of an innocent person? You know why ??? The fucking white privilege, "she continued, referring to one of Donald Trump's tweets.
And to add: “Today, we have to respond to hundreds of years of oppression against black people. The slogan #BlackLivesMatter does not mean that other lives do not count. He questions the fact that society clearly thinks that the life of blacks does not count, whereas it counts. "
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