Black lives matter vs. All lives matter. Gay pride vs. Straight pride. These are a couple battles we've seen crop up on social media within the last few years. This is assuming you can call them battles, of course; they're really a one-two punch of reactionary movements. Black Lives Matter is a reaction to the resurgence in notorious cases of police brutality against blacks. To proclaim the oppression of one race, though, attention must be called to the race of the oppressor, and here, it's not just whites. Last year, for example, saw a Latino police officer shoot a black man several times despite the fact he was already neutralized. So the Black Lives Matter movement rose to put the spotlight on the challenges blacks have with our criminal justice procedures. The conflict arose when attention was called to the oppressors' races. People have a psychological tendency to be defensive about groups they are part of, including race, because an attack on a group i