Tusinski: Blue lives never made a difference — they don't exist
A spam message from one of my old companions showed up on my feed as I swiped through Instagram this mid year. It was the tallness of the George Floyd fights, and posts calling for racial equity and mass dissent lit up the web — Instagram specifically. However this companion posted the inverse. He shared posts announcing " blue lives matter !" He unyieldingly safeguarded the police and derided dissidents walking for racial value. This late spring cemented my conviction that " blue lives " don't make any difference since they don't exist. The "development" he was a piece of exists exclusively to ensure a calling instead of the unchangeable and exceptionally close to home personality of Black Americans that Black Lives Matter looks to secure. Presently, let me be forthright. My uncle is a cop, and half of my family falls determinedly into the blue lives matter camp. I have seen that side of the story. I have seen the psychological and actual cost b...