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Protest signs should say ‘all lives matter’

Gary Sargent

Jan. 11, 2015 12:00 am

To the editor:

When the protest armies gather together, inspired by Al Sharpton, signs are everywhere proclaiming 'black lives matter.”

I wonder if it occurs to any of these sign bearers that black folks don't have a monopoly on lives that matter. Throw away those signs and make new ones that read 'all lives matter.”

The are plenty of very serious problems facing this country, serious enough to need 'all hands on deck.”

This will be difficult (to say the least), given a broken K-12 system, broken politics and a tax code that is a tangled mess beyond belief.

Gary Sargent

Cedar Rapids

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