Stop Making Black Lives Matter A “Controversial” Statement

Across the country, people and institutions are turning this human rights issue into a political debate.

Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th Street. The words "Black Lives Matter" were painted on the two-block section of 16th Street last year in the wake of the George Floyd protest. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

I apparently became a radical in 7th grade. 

The year was 2014 and I was coming to terms with the violence against Black people in America at t…