BuzzFeed - Joe Raedle / Getty Images For weeks leading up to the first Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Black Lives Matter activists wondered if the candidates would be asked about racism and structural inequality â and about their movement to dismantle both. The question they got, posed by CNN anchor Don Lemon, was something less than they had hoped for after getting face-time with all the major Democratic candidates: "Do black lives matter, or do all lives matter?" Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders replied first, affirming the movement's slogan. "And the reason those words matter is the African American community knows that, on any given day, some innocent person like Sandra Bland can get into a car, and then three days later she's going to end up dead in jail, or their kids are going to get shot," Sanders said. "We need to combat institutional racism from top to bottom, and we need major, major reforms in a broken criminal justice system in which we have m
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