Do you ask because for you only white lives matter?
The slogan "black lives matter" is exclusive. Why are you excluding people from your concern ?
Are you obtuse? The slogan, which I have nothing to do with, is in reference to so many blacks being killed by policemen in questionable circumstances.
Do black lives not matter to you?
Nothing to do with ? You don't support those chanting this racist and exclusionary drivel ? How about the Pakistani school children who were massacred ? Why are they not mentioned on your signs ? Do they not matter ?
All lives matter...but in Ferguson, apparently black lives don't matter, that's the reason for the signs. Can't dumb it down for you any more than that. It's a way of telling racist people that black lives "also" matter....which apparently is too hard for you to comprehend.
Or it could be that in Ferguson and other places there really are that many young black men out there breaking the law and hurting other people out there, whether they're black, white, etc. I for one do know there are many good black people out there, and that their lives matter as well. I also know that more than a few people are either overlooking the crimes performed by some dead/arrested young black men, or they downplay it or point it at the people upholding the law. That's not to say that all cops are good but please, no way was Mr. Brown a saint and a culmination of his own actions did ultimately lead to his death. Perhaps these protesters should take issue with those who influence some young black men to behave like violent animals. Fight back against the drug, misogynistic, violent, ignorant, and ghetto influences that haunt their communities. Young boys and girls need forthright mothers and fathers who are there for them and love them. In my opinion they need that nuclear family, and fortune smiles upon those within any community who had that.