The Argument for Declaring Black Lives Matter

The slogan black lives matter disturbed me mainly because it seemed to me uh too self-effacing. It reminded me of perhaps the most famous of Frederick Douglass's orations that he delivered on 4th of july in 1850s. He built the whole rhetorical structure on the argument i don't need to tell you people these things, even slave owners know they are human beings. When young people have to say black lives matter do americans have to say that other Americans and for that matter other human beings lives matter? That should be where we're supposed to start not what we're out to achieve but isn't it our assumption about where we start?"