Do You Really Think Black Lives Matter as Much as White Ones?

Here’s a test to show how many white folks don’t — perhaps not even you

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Even those who detest Black Lives Matter (as in, the movement) will typically agree that Black lives themselves matter.

Well, at least to the extent “all lives” do — a point about which they like to remind us (as if rhetorically emphasizing the lives of those typically left out of the concept of “all” amounted to unjust preferencing).

Yes, Black lives matter, they insist. And if you asked if they believed Black lives were every bit as valuable as those of whites, all but the most Nazified among them would answer in the affirmative.

But they’re lying.

And not just the right-wing types who most detest BLM, but even many white liberals who proclaim their belief in the value of Black life loudly and proudly.

I doubt seriously that even most of them genuinely believe in the equal worth of Black humanity.

It’s an audacious statement, I know. But there’s a little test — or perhaps a thought experiment — one can indulge to demonstrate it.

The test has only a few questions. Here’s the first: