A Black Lives Matter rally is being planned for Morristown on Saturday, July 9, 2016, said Megan Wolff, a local resident handling publicity for the event.
Demonstrators plan to gather at the Morristown police station at 12:15 pm and march to the Morris County Courthouse, she said.
“We want to spread a message of equality. Not to be anti-cop, but to be anti-hate,” said Wolff, a 2012 graduate of Temple University.
The rally is in response to highly publicized police shootings of African Americans in Louisiana and Minnesota, and the shooting of Dallas police officers at a Black Lives Matter rally, Wolff said.
Organizers T’Anna Kimbrough and Jerry Carter are motivated by “solidarity and love,” she said. “We feel confident this will be a march of peace.”
Fact is the more WHITES dies at the hands of police than blacks – many, many more whites than blacks. In fact, studies show that police are, in fact, LESS LIKELY TO FIRE at a black person than at a white person. How do you explain THIS?
Maybe if you would look at the FACTS instead of following the media reporting on what is sensational right at this second, you would see the truth.
… when Blacks speak on #BlackLivesMatter, it doesn’t mean that we don’t believe that #AllLivesMatter; it means that we live in a world where we see and live firsthand the disparities of Black killings versus those of Whites at the hands of police officers who have taken an oath “to serve and protect” uniformly without bias of skin color; disproportion of black confrontation with police officers, arrests, indictments, sentences than that of their white counterparts. Yes, #AllLivesMatter, but #BlackLivesMatter is a MOVEMENT — one similar to the Civil Rights Movement, that says “this nationwide cancer exists, it’s wrong, and we won’t rest until it’s changed”.
Thank you to the organizers T’Anna Kimbrough and Jerry Carter for today’s rally. I am proud of your efforts. I understand, it is very hard to do nonthing. Peace, love, justice, equality for all were your expressions today. I appreciate all young adults who have a will to step up for your beliefs and try hard to make a difference in a broken America…..home of the free.
For every action, there is a reaction. Neither was pretty. We lost lives.
Please continue your work.
Alexandra, you’re entirely missing the point.
They’re not saying that “all lives don’t matter.” There’s a daily epidemic in this country where African-Americans are being killed every day because of racial profiling. “All lives matter” doesn’t adequately reinforce this issue because “all lives matters” ignores the epidemic at hand.
By generalizing it like that, you’re not talking about the issue at hand — that cops are making reactionary decisions based on racism and killing innocent African-Americans. You’re ignoring it.
Yes, all lives matter, but “all lives” aren’t the ones being killed in this repetitive incidents. We need to be talk about racial profiling and not generalize it like that. Nobody ever said that “all lives” don’t matter. In my mind, that’s a paranoid response. Yes, all lives matter. But that isn’t what this is about.
How about a demonstration against the black on black killings in Chicago, which are on a course to set an all time record. The percentage of white cops shooting white “perps” is far greater than white on black.
The dead perp in Louiseanna was a 19 time criminal who was know by just about every cop in New Orleans, he should not have been on the street in the first place.
All lives matter.
Period.
If this were a white lives matter event people would be all over it for being racist.
Black, white, police, Jewish, Christian, Muslim etc..
Just all live in peace, I’m sick of it and glad to be out of town right now. These things have gone bad, real bad even if the original intention was a good one.
This is really cool
Thank you so much for coming out! We are looking forward to having you join us in this historic moment! “Organizer”