Black lives matter. What are they protesting about? I don't watch the news so I'm confused what the fuss is all about.?

'I don't watch the news so I'm confused what the fuss is all about', you end your question - which make it more comical. If the news of these protesters have not been watched - or even read - by the questioner, then where does this apparent 'confusion' come from?

Could it be the mass of gossip and racist verdicts from people from sites like this has had anything to do with the questioners' particular confusion.

How 'equal' do you think people are treated in the USA (or in certain parts, at least)?

Here's a funny story - last week, in the UK (London), a group calling itself 'Black Lives Matter' interrupted flights at London City Airport...and at the end of the circus, the people who were thrown onto a police cell for their acts were nine posh trendy white dudes, who had decided to steal the BLM title, which is a hugely important statement in the US, and it's becoming so in the UK, opening the eyes of injustice - but these posh hippies had some nerve using the title for their own cause, and other causes you would have seen around 45 years ago outside any Polytechnic.

Even though you have the blacks in certain countries eg. USA, they are still treated unfairly. From my POV, the conditions of treatment still haven't changed much. Sure, they got to vote and have rights, but it's like those didn't exist.

If one of them do something bad, then everyone will be like in this ISIS crisis where majority of white people are convinced they should be kicked out or bombed or whatever.

I don't know what the fuss is about with black people anyway. I grew up in a majority black country and if you know them personally, they're actually great people. Seriously, everyone was black long ago. It's just because of our migration to less sun places that we were eventually bleached out to white.

Because blacks aren't treated equally in the USA. You have a black man and a white man both charged with say... rape. The white man gets 3 months. The black man gets 20 years.

Or you have a white man walking around with an AR-15. Police come up to him, question him about why he's carrying a rifle, he says he's open carrying because of his 2nd amendment rights, and they go their separate ways. Black guy carries around a toy gun in a Walmart and the police show up and kill him while he's talking on the phone without so much as a warning.

You have black people who were not resisting arrest, who were willingly laying down on the ground in front of police who were shot dead or beaten to death or any number of very very very wrong things. And these policemen who committed these murders? Paid administrative leave and no charges filed against them. It's messed up.

The media is whipping up a frenzy to distract us from the piss poor presidential candidates we have. Right now is the least racist time in the history of the USA, but you'd think it was pre-civil war era by how people are carrying on. Not to say that racism doesn't exist, but it's not nearly as bad as it's portrayed. Cops kill everyone equally dead, and have a lot of assholes working on the force.

But when a white man called a black man the n word, and the black beat him to death, the jury acquitted him, and the judged ruled that some words were fighting words. This may have been about 10-15 years ago, but I wonder how many people never heard that brilliant precedent from the judge? I can't imagine what lamestream source anyone would have.

Apparently people feel that when you defy or threaten a police officer, you don't deserve to get shot.

I figure that if their lives really mattered as much as they say they do, they wouldn't do something so stupid in the first place. But that's just me.

Because if a white police officer kills a black man, black people think the black man got shot because he was black, not because he was commiting a crime or threatening the police officer. It seems rather paranoid to me. Police officers don't want to kill people for no reason.

"police brutality" mostly. I get that yes sometimes police can be racist but they also often just make the wrong decision. Many people are upset because unarmed black men are getting "targeted" by police. Yes some were completely innocent but some happened because the person was committing a crime and believed to be armed. Yes racism is a thing but police are not only attacking black people and the vast majority arent attacking anyone rather just doing their job.

They are protesting about police brutality, but the way they are doing it makes you feel they are pissing off more people than gaining supporters.

Did you know that twice as much white people are shot and killed than black people in the USA