>>I haven't said much about this at all, but I understand that "Black Lives Matter" carries an implied "too" at the end.
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>Then why did O'Malley, and Sanders, have to apologize for saying "All lives matter"?

Because it showed that they hadn't understood the implied "too" and thus, hadn't understood the underlying issue that for 300 years in this country, black people's lives have been valued lower than the lives of white people (however "white" was defined at that time).

Tamar