Many, especially in the white community, have argued that the Black Lives Matter characterization is racist. It is not. The movement has never asserted that white lives or all lives do not matter. Instead, it's focus is to amplify that black lives matter in view of the continuous and systemic racism, discrimination and deadly use of force by the police against blacks, Blacks have never engineered a systemic dehumanization of whites as whites have done to blacks through slavery, Jim Crow and modern day racism and white supremacy. The movement is simply asserting that black lives matter.