I loved how you put personal faces behind the movement! I sometimes wonder how much this might have turned out differently if the word “too” had been added to the end (it’s not there was ever a question about whether white lives mattered). Your first analogy was great, though!

Little quips like “alllivesmatter” are just a way to avoid empathizing. Being an older white male myself, I’ve seen how little many of my peers even want to think about it. It distresses me and I don’t know what I can do about it.