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After a White man repeatedly erased girl's 'Black Lives Matter' chalk drawing in front of her home, neighbors stepped in to show supporthttps://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/us/white-man-erases-black-lives-matter-chalk-trnd/index.html
(CNN)Every day for nearly a week, Manette Sharick and her 3-year-old daughter, Zhuri, drew "Black Lives Matter" in chalk across the sidewalk outside their home in Concord, California.
But every time they wrote the message, they woke up the next morning to find that the word Black, and only that word, had been erased.
"I just wanted to teach my daughter that Black lives matter, Black culture matters, Black communities matter, and that we are the movement for Black lives," Sharick, who is Black, told CNN. "I was shocked that someone could be purposefully doing this. It hurt a lot, it made me extremely upset."
Following three days of what she called "overwhelming frustration," Sharick wrote the message in direct view of her security camera.
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cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)The whole community came together and shut that guy down without any violence or hate filled speech, just love and support.
Thanks for posting a good story this morning.
ProfessorGAC
(65,000 posts)Didn't he. I think he figured the rest of the neighbors would have his back.
They didn't. Neighbors made him stand out as a big jerk.
No support, Jimmy!
I'm assuming he slithered back under his rock.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)video'd a traffic stop for 15 minutes until he drove away. Good things.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)feel. HUGE!
StarryNite
(9,443 posts)I'm so happy for the support they got. There is no shortage of assholes and they have been emboldened by the Orange It. But it turned out to be a great lesson for all. It takes a village and we're stronger together.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Yup. That Hillary is always right.
Leith
(7,809 posts)He had no problem bullying a mother and daughter repeatedly. That so-called "man" is scum.
IronLionZion
(45,431 posts)and they want people they don't like to die
llashram
(6,265 posts)then and only then will it be true that all lives matter
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)They convince themselves that BLM means:
ONLY Black Lives Matter
When it actually is meant as:
Black Lives Matter TOO
OF COURSE all lives matter. Of course there are underprivileged white people that get harassed and killed too. Although I doubt that is who this man is concerned about. But ffs, can't these whites, who twist the acronym to suit their own whitewashing of any systemic problem, just simply allow others to express how THEY define the statement?