New billboard in Memphis puts twist on 'Black Lives Matter'

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A billboard in Memphis gives new meaning to the phrase "black lives matter."

Big and bold, in red and black, the message stands out to drivers in the Orange Mound neighborhood: "Black lives matter. So let's quit killing each other."

Civil rights activist Fred Davis is the man behind the message. He's not new to putting up controversial billboards.

Davis' billboard is directly in front of his insurance company. He said he's expanding on the "black lives matter" movement following the deaths of black men across the country.

He said it's time black people realize they need to stop violence against each other.

Kids living in single parent households are disproportionately overrepresented in urban areas already super saturated with poverty and drug culture. i.e. the ghettos. It's also entirely likely that the drug problem is exacerbating the unstable family/single parent issue. Lots of mothers and fathers are in prison for committing various drug crimes. Plenty of moms and dads are dead one way or the other because of the drug problem too. Where does that leave junior? bloods or crips?

What's worse, this drug problem is spilling out of the ghettos and into the suburbs. The problem is increasingly not contained. I work in an ER on the outskirts of a large city. A day doesn't go by that some young white guy or girl doesn't come in overdosed on heroin. Sometimes the Narcan fixes them in time, sometimes it doesn't. The last time it didn't, both the guys white parents stood at his bedside crying together. He was 20 something. Not sure if he left any kids behind. The drug problem is real and it fuels the urban crime problem. I see it every day. You aren't going to convince me that being raised by one parent is a bigger problem than drugs. period.

I supose you could employ reverse paychology and say black lives don’t matter, keep voting democrat, or black lives don’t matter, keep aborting your babies and murdering each other.

That would really put some of them in a conundrum.

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