Blue ‘Lives’ Don’t Matter Because Blue ‘Lives’ Don’t Exist

The “blue lives” matter argument is the most irrelevant argument to date, simply because “blue lives” do not exist. Cops willingly choose their profession and when they finish their shift they can clock out, go home, take their uniform off, and continue with their lives. You can walk by an off-duty or undercover cop and not even know what their job is.

Black people can not go home and not be Black anymore; they did not willingly choose to be a Black person. They were born Black, they will live their lives as Black people, and they will die Black. There is a stark difference between Black lives and “blue lives”, one exists and the other does not.

Saying “blue lives matter” is a mockery to the Black Lives Matter movement — it is not a movement within itself. It attempts to make working in law enforcement a social identity that is equivalent to race, and that’s just never going to be a thing.

One of the most blatant wrongdoings of the “blue lives matter” argument is that it is a lie. It misconstrues history; Black lives have always lived under erasure, they have always been systemically criminalized, abused, and enslaved. “Blue lives” have never lived under erasure, they have never been considered less than, and in fact being a cop in itself was and is a vocation that has always been considered above Black lives.

Source: Medium.com