After the horrible massacres of black people by policemen, crazy white supremacy nuts, and the like, black people started marching recently in protest with signs that said “Black Lives Matter.” When gun men senselessly shot down policemen for no reason, new signs appeared that said, “Blue Lives Matter.” I think we are getting too hung up on color, as usual. All lives matter no matter what the color. It is true that black people are still suffering at the hands of other races, but there are other lives that are being singled out and no one is protesting their destruction. No one carries signs in protest. Very few seem to care.
First, let’s talk about all the children who are abused, tortured, neglected, and even killed. Don’t these young lives matter? No one marches in support of these precious little ones who belong to all colors. Don’t “Young Lives Matter?”
Why aren’t people marching for women who are still discriminated against in the workplace, on the streets, in their homes, and just about every aspect of their lives? We have women killed for no other reason than some sexual predator “uses” them and throws them away. We have husbands who beat their wives and girlfriends just because they can. We have qualified women being passed over for promotion just because of their sex. Don’t “Female Lives Matter?”
Although the nation has accepted that gay individuals’ lives matter, there are so many people who abuse them at every turn. They cannot get past their sexual orientation and see the individual person. Again, people kill them, beat them, and discriminate against them because they do not fit the “normal” view of white, heterosexual, male. Few of the people I mention here fit this particular “norm.” And this “norm” is so passé and not accepted in most of the world. So I say, Don’t “Gay Lives Matter?”
Now, for my pet peeve - what about senior citizens? So many of these people have accomplished much in their lives and deserve a little peace in their golden years. Too many are not protected from “elder abuse” by their families, their government, and sometimes absolute strangers. Society assumes that all seniors who have worked 40+ years have some sort of “golden parachute” when they retire. Most of them live on Social Security and a small pension if the places where they worked offered one. Many have had to spend their “retirement money” and “life savings” on illness costs. So I ask again the question again. Don’t "Senior Lives Matter?”
The point I am trying to make is that “All Lives Matter” and we should not divide our efforts to correct wrong doing by color or anything else. Abusing a group of people for any reason should be banished from our great country. We should try to address the problems of everyone and protest for all of them. Many of the people abused are black; many are “blue”; many are “brown;” many are “white;” and many are “gray.” I matter and you matter. Let’s get over the colors and the discrimination, OK, and say “ALL LIVES MATTER.”
First, let’s talk about all the children who are abused, tortured, neglected, and even killed. Don’t these young lives matter? No one marches in support of these precious little ones who belong to all colors. Don’t “Young Lives Matter?”
Why aren’t people marching for women who are still discriminated against in the workplace, on the streets, in their homes, and just about every aspect of their lives? We have women killed for no other reason than some sexual predator “uses” them and throws them away. We have husbands who beat their wives and girlfriends just because they can. We have qualified women being passed over for promotion just because of their sex. Don’t “Female Lives Matter?”
Although the nation has accepted that gay individuals’ lives matter, there are so many people who abuse them at every turn. They cannot get past their sexual orientation and see the individual person. Again, people kill them, beat them, and discriminate against them because they do not fit the “normal” view of white, heterosexual, male. Few of the people I mention here fit this particular “norm.” And this “norm” is so passé and not accepted in most of the world. So I say, Don’t “Gay Lives Matter?”
Now, for my pet peeve - what about senior citizens? So many of these people have accomplished much in their lives and deserve a little peace in their golden years. Too many are not protected from “elder abuse” by their families, their government, and sometimes absolute strangers. Society assumes that all seniors who have worked 40+ years have some sort of “golden parachute” when they retire. Most of them live on Social Security and a small pension if the places where they worked offered one. Many have had to spend their “retirement money” and “life savings” on illness costs. So I ask again the question again. Don’t "Senior Lives Matter?”
The point I am trying to make is that “All Lives Matter” and we should not divide our efforts to correct wrong doing by color or anything else. Abusing a group of people for any reason should be banished from our great country. We should try to address the problems of everyone and protest for all of them. Many of the people abused are black; many are “blue”; many are “brown;” many are “white;” and many are “gray.” I matter and you matter. Let’s get over the colors and the discrimination, OK, and say “ALL LIVES MATTER.”
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