Editor’s note: An earlier version of this letter online mistakenly credited the author as Kwame Bumpus, the son of G. Djata Bumpus.
Personally, I don’t like this self-victimization campaign called “Black Lives Matter” because we are not victims!
We have the resources to build loving and prosperous communities. Besides, nationwide we kill ourselves a whole lot more than police do.
Why are there no protests about that? In fact, cops kill European Americans far more regularly than they do African Americans. And it is not an issue about who loses the larger percentage of their population group when that happens. After all, each human being counts.
If that didn’t matter, then why does anyone bother to go out and vote? Or how would Barack Obama get elected president of the United States?
Hillary Clinton says “women and minorities” all day long, instead of “women and non-European American men.”
That term “women and minorities” totally disrespects, especially African American women, because it suggests that the only real women are European American.
Why aren’t the Black Lives Matter people protesting that? It’s all a sham!
G. Djata Bumpus
Amherst