Ken Cuccinelli: It Should Be “#BlackLivesMatterToo”

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Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was recently on television discussing #blacklivesmatter. He’s says he’s a little offended by the hashtag, and the protest movement behind it. He’d like to add the word, “too” to the end of the hashtag. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“A panel discussion on CNN got heated Sunday when former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) argued that “Black Lives Matter” is a poor message because it makes white people feel less valued…

“Adding t-o-o at the end puts it in a context that makes sense,” he argued. Sellers answered that message is already implicit in the slogan.

“Well, you may say that,” Cuccinelli told Sellers. “And there’s plenty of reason to understand that. But I don’t think every American hears it that way. They hear, ‘Here we are. Yes, we have this political motivation that we’re separating out this one category of Americans and saying they matter more than everybody else.'””*

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