Mayor Buttigieg expresses regret over his prior use of 'All Lives Matter,' explaining that he didn't understand it was coined to 'devalue' the Black Lives Matter movement.
on Thursday expressed regret over using the politically charged term"all lives matter" in 2015, explaining that he didn't understand it was coined to"devalue" the Black Lives Matter movement.
"What I did not understand at that time was that phrase ... was coming to be used as a sort of counter-slogan to Black Lives Matter," Buttigieg said after a speech at the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network's annual convention in New York City. "And so that statement, which seems very anodyne and something that nobody could be against, actually wound up being used to devalue what the Black Lives Matter movement was telling us," he added."Since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back on that activism, I stopped using it in that context.
"There is no contradiction between respecting the risks that police officers take every day in order to protect this community, and recognizing the need to overcome the biases implicit in a justice system that treats people from different backgrounds differently, even when they are accused of the same offenses," he said, according to a transcript"We need to take both those things seriously, for the simple and profound reason that all lives matter.
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