All lives matter

There are some articles I'm hoping originated from the onion-
http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/10/a-college-president-had-to-apologize-for#commentaddingblock
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-craven/please-stop-telling-me-th_b_6223072.html
In this case it is people getting upset over Kathleen McCartney of Smith college tweeting all lives matter and saying such a tweet is culturally insensitive.

Such tweets strike me as racist-  as they sound like they want us to ignore other police shootings.

The people complaining will ask questions like 

the question that stands and begs the answer is, do black lives matter?

The answer is yes- as the category of all people does include black people. Any statement with the word all- means if there is one exception then it is false-so accept the fact we mean what we say.

Then they ask if we would have felt the same if the skin color was reversed- and my answer here is simple yes I would- and that is death is tragic and when police shoot people we must be willing to look at the evidence and be willing to hold the police accountable when they cross over the line.

I ask these people how do they feel about the Dillon Taylor case?  

Dillon Taylor was a 20 year old white man who had been shot by the police in Salt Lake City, Utah

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58472404-78/taylor-cruz-hands-gill.html.csp

If they are upset over his death after reading about it- then they have proven all lives do matter however if they want to give any excuse that states that these three case should not be viewed with the same lens that is built on a notion that their is a difference in any of these due to skin color - then the complaint is racist.  

The usual line is that the relationship between the black community and the police is problematic at best. This might be true but it does not change the fact the cases should be looked at individually and the verdicts should be based completely on the evidence at hand. People might bring up issues like race relations- or the historically bad relationship between the police and black community these are important issues that need to be honestly discussed with people recognizing the fact the dream of the civil rights movement where people are judged by their character and not skin.

I refuse to make an exception/