There are some words that precede “Black Lives Matter,” and they go something like this: Because of the brutalizing and killing of black people at the hands of the police and the indifference of society in general and the criminal justice system in particular, it is important that we say that… “
This is, of course, far too long to fit on a t-shirt.
Law professor’s response to BLM shirt complaint.
The law professor is Patricia Leary at Whittier Law School (I think it’s okay to share her name as this has been confirmed by the school to Inside Higher Ed.) The full correspondence can be found here, including the anonymous student complaint letter, and the full answer by Prof. Leary is worth a read.
Thoughts?