Imagine hearing the white father of your black kids say “blue lives matter”, I can’t think of anything more infuriating? However, this is the father of your kids, a man you loved. This is a problem journalist J.D.Myall had to deal with and she wrote up her experience in a very interesting read for the Huffington Post.

Below is the start of the article and then the link to read the whole thing is below:

“I believe all lives matter… especially blue ones. People shouldn’t say ‘Black Lives Matter.

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I blink twice and close my gaping mouth. My emotions take over after hearing this statement; He doesn’t know it is divisive as hell. I want to call him a string of colorful names. Instead, I bite my tongue till I think it may bleed for the sake of keeping our fragile peace for the kids.

My first thought is, Speaking those words in the context that you used them is shameful. No wonder you are my ex-husband. For a second I wonder what the hell I ever saw in him. Truthfully, I’m angry and beyond baffled by how someone could father children with a Black Woman and make a statement so dismissive of Black people’s struggles. Is he a racist? Is he so out of touch that he doesn’t know why that remark is offensive? Or does he simply need to be educated on this topic?

Read the whole article here.