Hello, this is Alonzo Bowden.

Welcome to episode 103 of my podcast, Who's Paying Attention?

I am recording live from Toronto.

I'm in the midst of the Just for Last Road Show, having a great time up here.

The shows are going great, and that's it. So let's let me get right into it. Black Lives Matter.

I would argue, no, they don't. They should, but they don't't as we all know by now there's been another

killing uh of an unarmed black man by a police officer okay in south carolina um excuse me

walter scott was shot by a police officer eight times, and you've probably seen the video and so on and so forth.

Now, this officer has been charged with murder, but being charged doesn't mean anything because there's a long way between being charged and being convicted.

And it's, I'll tell you what prompted me doing this.

There's a very dramatic cover of this week's Time magazine that says Black Lives Matter.

And I bought it and I read the article.

And it's a good article.

And there's some good op-ed pieces afterwards.

But do Black Lives Matter?

I say no.

I say no, they don't.

I mean, okay, let's do a roll call.

From February of 2012 to what is this, April of 2015.

So in the past three years, there have been 14 cases that, 14 big cases,

has probably been more, but 14 big cases of unarmed black men being shot and or killed by police officers. The narrative is always the same. It's always

the same. I felt my life was threatened. I was in danger of my life. And this latest one in South

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