BlackLivesMatter Activist: ‘Saying “All Lives Matter” Is a Violent Statement’

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WOLF: “So Julius, we can expect more of that kind of interrupting the candidates as they try to speak? Is that what I'm hearing?”

JONES: “I think what the video that daunasia and I and others are in shows that there is more diverse tactics than just shutting down. But from the palette of things that we will do, there's a diversity. We'll shut them down, we'll have meetings, it will -- whatever it takes to get black lives matter on the national agenda is what we're seeking to do. And it's important to note that folks want to characterize and judge the black lives matter movement in myriad ways but what no one can argue with S that this is a pressing issue. This is a pressing issue. And some people live in a world where it's just a pressing issue in politics and some people live in a world where it's actually our kids' dying. And so if folks want to inform their own perspective on become lives matter, it's the urgency that we see in the video of Sam Dubose who got shot in the head point blank range in a car just for diving. It's the urgency of tamir rice who was 12 years old shot literally for playing and it's the urgency of Sandra bland, the case that everybody knows. So temper -- I would say temper your perspective with the urgency that black lives are actively under attack and we are in a terrible war with our own country, African-Americans are Americans and we're not treated like that. We're not treated as if black lives matter and when people say "All lives matter" it's a violent statement because the only time that people say "All lives matter" is in opposition to black lives matter and it's the most violent statement of love that you can do. It's like "All lives matter!" Yes, we understand that, it's true, but in this country for the long time the United States acts like black lives don't matter.”