'All Lives Matter' has come to become an immediate response of a lot of white and white-appeasing people to 'Black Lives Matter'. Do all lives matter? Oh, absolutely. Yes, they do. But are all lives being treated equally, or if we quote again – do all lives matter? As in, do they really matter? To our system, to our judiciary and even to our population? Here's the stats:

Despite making up less than 14 percent of the population, Black people accounted for nearly 24 percent of the over 6,000 deadly police shootings by 2021 since 2015, according to the Washington Post police shootings database. Police fatally shoot unarmed black people in the US is more than three times as high as it is for white people. Although black drivers were statistically less likely to be carrying illegal things, they were checked up to twice as often as white drivers.

Despite having similar rates of marijuana use, black persons were 3.7 times more likely than their white counterparts to be arrested for marijuana possession. So, coming back to the question. – Do all lives matter equally under the law?

Our system is so strongly against black people that they can't even voice their fears without being told off for it. Yes, all lives matter but to talk about that when black people are constantly facing the brunt of white supremacy and racism is like asking the fire department to turn their hose to a perfectly fine house while another house is on fire because "All Houses Matter."

White people, it's not about you. You are not being threatened everyday of your life for your skin color. So probably take a step back and do not be another hurdle in black people's fight for equality. This attention craving needs to stop. You need to join the fight, and that would be the bare minimum.