Why does everyone keep saying and agreeing with only “black lives matter?” How did this even start? How did these two phrases come into a disagreement with each other? Well let me tell you how “black lives matter” started.

In the summer of 2013, after George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin, an african american, in Sanford, Florida. After that three african american people started a hashtag saying #blacklivesmatter. A few years later in 2015 and 2016 there is another hashtag saying #alllivesmatter which includes all races, homosexuals, and the point of this is that we should not highlight just one race but to put other people’s race in there too. African Americans aren’t the only one who have to suffer. I am a mexican and I see that we do face many troubles. Some of us living in some unsafe places. Some children are scared to even go outside and play because their parents are afraid that their children are going to get kidnapped, raped, or even killed. I faced that trouble. I was one of the children who go outside. I lived the ghetto part of town, and yet I’m still here.

All lives matter is not something that “white people” say, it’s because we should not highlight just one race but to agree with all that every life in this world does and will still matter. All lives matter is something that everyone shares and have respect for. There are so much violence in this world and we all have to stand up for all because we all matter.

We should fight together not fight each other. All lives matter- yours, mine, ours.