The fight to maintain the validity that black lives do — in fact —matter is a frustrating and stressful one.

It is a necessary fight, however.

Further proof of this came this weekend, when a Black Lives Matter sign a Portland family had in their front yard went up in flames. The family says that this was no accident, but arson.

"It was just, ‘Fire!’ That's a terrible thing to hear. ‘There's a fire in our front yard!’" the family's matriarch, Dori Rosenblum, told Fox Oregon. Her husband had to use a hose to extinguish the flames.

“They could've thrown it in the street, they could've graffitied it, you know, torn it in half; they could've done a lot of things, but they chose to set it on fire," Mrs. Rosenblum continued.

The Rosenblums' neighbors weren't particularly pleased by the incident either. They feel that the sign ended up ashes in order to send a racist message.

"I think arson on a sign like that is a particularly loaded gesture. And yeah, it makes me really angry," said one neighbor, Colleen Nielsen.

“It's pretty representative of a lot of the political climate in our country right now," another neighbor, Virginia Gormley, said.

Despite the support the Rosenblums have received from their neighbors, Mrs. Rosenblum said that she and her family are trying to keep things in perspective. "You know, there's a lot of people handling a lot worse things. All day long, all the time in our society and I think … this is a symbol for what it's like for people who have to deal with racism all the time."

Too, Mrs. Rosenblum doesn’t plan to let this fire deter her in her pursuit of her First Amendment rights. She said that she plans to purchase another Black Lives Matter sign, and will put it in her front yard, right where the old one was.