Simple enough: When I first heard it, I thought it was a black supremacist thing asserting against an assumption of racial equality that it is specifically the black lives to matter, and I was offended. In the midst of arguing against it, I realized it was asserting "black lives matter, in case you've forgotten!" and was something I ideologically support as part of the assumption of racial equality. I've since wondered if the general white opposition to the movement is rooted in miscommunication like my initial take on it.

At first I thought they were just saying black lives matter. I was like oh that's cool. (Didn't think much of it I was a kid not interested in politics.) The phrase is fine. Then later I saw them a bit and I was like uh wtf. Why are they so hateful, prejudiced, and violent? Then I learned about their origins, their leaders, their founders, I heard what they have to say, I saw what they do. They are a racist terrorist group. Not very pleased with them.

Never thought that extremely. I don't care what they call themselves, I just care that the rioters are making their cause look very bad and their more civil activists are not calling them out on it. Thankfully it looks like they've stopped though.

Martin Luther King was declared an enemy of the state. J Edgar Hoover absolutely loathed King, calling him "the most notorious liar in the country" and link

Now, history raises him as the pinnacle of civil rights leaders, and his movement as an effective way to fight injustice.

I wonder what they'll say about BLM in fifty years.

I wonder which side of history you want to fall on.

^Agreed - it seems that many protest movements are seen as "counter-productive" or "extremist" by people during their time, yet effective and uncontroversial in their views later on.

To add - the continual bashing of Black Lives Matter brings to mind this quote by Martin Luther King Jr:
"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

The moderate more devoted to "order" than to justice, says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action" and implores people to wait for a more convenient time? I see it so often, everywhere, in all issues... though none more than this one.

quishy11 I agree. I also hate when people say that black people can't be racist because I went to a very diverse school where I was a minority and skill got picked on and told that I couldn't sit with them because I was white and that means I must be born racist.

ALL lives matter and it shouldn't matter what color of skin someone has.

Are 36% still opposed to this phrase after George Floyd? That is, after it was clearly demonstrated that black lives in fact DON'T matter as much as white lives in the world of policing and criminal "justice"?