CHARLES GRAHAM: Rooting out prejudice is what matters

A campaign called Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean the lives of people of other ethnicities don’t count, nor does it call for preferential treatment. It would be called Black Lives Matter More if that were the case.

A young man, who has been part of peaceful protests in America, was interviewed on the TV the other day and summed it up perfectly: “you don’t go to a loved one’s funeral and then amid the tributes someone shouts out from the back ‘all the other people buried in this cemetery matter just as much.’”

Of course people of all races matter equally, it’s just that at the moment the BAME community is trying to make sure that centuries of prejudice, when their lives haven’t always mattered as much as other people’s, are finally ended.

And when idiots hire a plane to fly a “White Lives Matters” banner over the Man City-Burnley game at the weekend, presumably because they feel white people have been grievously oppressed and discriminated against for years, it only shows how much the point is being missed and how much more yet needs to be done to achieve equality for the true victims of prejudice.

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