Black lives matter is a bigger issue than just the Black Lives Matter organization. I’m afraid this article<\/a> will be used by those who are merely tired of people saying that black lives matter, small letters, because either they don’t agree or don’t care. This is a huge issue in our country. Your other race article<\/a> doesn’t quite answer the current situation either, and rather looks like the diversion “all lives matter” often seen by those who don’t know and don’t care about the hurting and mistreatment of their dark-skinned brothers and sisters in Christ, fellow Americans who may be looking to Christians to shine a light (whether they know it or not), and fellow human beings created in God’s image.<\/p>\n Just a heads up.<\/p>\n\t Thank you for writing about your concerns. My point remains. There is only one race — the human race. We are all descendants of Adam. “He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation<\/em>” (Acts 17:26). Are there people being unfairly treated because of their ethnicity? Absolutely. People sin, so we expect that in any large sample of society you will find biased people. Any unfair treatment between people is wrong because Christians are commanded to see every individual as equal. “But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors<\/em>” (James 2:9). In this passage, the arbitrary distinction under consideration was wealth but we can apply the same to any other distinction between people. “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus<\/em>” (Galatians 3:28).<\/p>\n What is too often missed is that this is a two-edged sword. You can’t fix partiality by being partial to any particular group. When so many object to “all lives matter,” they are claiming that one group should be considered first; yet, that is partial treatment. When there is a problem, it must be addressed with the view that everyone is equal; otherwise, we become guilty of sin.<\/p>\n One of the problems people have is their tendency to see what they expect<\/em> to find. For example, my mother always said, “Bad things come in threes.” It seemed like it was true because once you noticed something bad happened, it was easy to find two more bad things happening. The problem is that life is full of good and bad events. All that happened was that the good things were ignored and only the bad things were focused upon. Paul applied this principle to morality. “To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled<\/em>” (Titus 1:15).<\/p>\n A reason for mentioning this is that as I was looking into finding exactly what is known about the problems, I kept running into disclaimers that what information currently exists is incomplete and known to be skewed.<\/p>\n \u201cBased on analysis of these data, we found evidence for a significant shift in attention<\/strong> to stories about police killings of unarmed Black men in the wake of Michael Brown\u2019s death, which we considered a \u2018key event\u2019 in changing the media framing of these deaths,\u201d Zuckerman and his colleagues write. \u201cIn addition to an increased volume of coverage, we saw evidence that police-involved deaths after Michael Brown\u2019s death were significantly more likely to be reported<\/strong> on as part of a larger pattern of police violence against Black citizens, and some evidence that these stories were more likely to be shared on social media<\/strong>.\u201d [“Deaths in police custody in the United States: Research review,<\/a>” Journalist’s Research].<\/p>\n “They found an average of 1,028 deaths per year, or 2.8 deaths per day. Overall, police were involved in 8 percent of U.S. homicides of adult males. During the six-year study period, black men were killed by police at a rate of 2.1 per 100,000 people, Latino men were killed at a rate of 1 per 100,000 and white men were killed at a rate of 0.6 men per 100,000. … A limitation of the study is that Fatal Encounters depends on public records and media reports, so cases are likely missing if they weren\u2019t reported by news outlets<\/strong>, particularly in places that don\u2019t have media coverage or don\u2019t publish online.” [“Police-involved deaths vary by race and place<\/a>“, Reuters].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is not to say there isn’t a problem. It is saying that what little we know is skewed but we don’t know by how much. There is enough there to warrant a deeper look into matters, but mass protests are not going to produce the answers people want.<\/p>\nAnswer:<\/h2>\n