White Lives Don't Matter

I happened to catch this segment on The Kelly File the other night.  I'd been thinking about posting this blog but Ms. Kelly beat me to it.

Since Ms. Kelly did such a fine job, I'll only add some embellishments.  With Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and the Charleston Nine, the administration jumped at the chance to look into whatever issues the individual incidents presented.  Certainly, there were issues that merited attention in each of them, although to the same extent to which the administration involved itself is debatable.  But beyond the involvement of the FBI and the DOJ, in each instance the administration, including the President himself, commented on the tragedy.

Yet whenever a white person is killed tragically by a minority the administration is telling silent.  Ms. Kelly mentions Kate Steinle, but she leaves out a host of others killed by minorities:

--  In 2014, Dillon Taylor was an unarmed white teenager shot to death by a black policeman in Salt Lake City, Utah.

--  In 2013, Australian exchange student Christopher Lane was shot in the back and killed by three minority teenagers in Oklahoma.

-- Also in 2013, World War II veteran Delbert Belton was beaten to death by black youths in Spokane, Washington.

-- In Moore, Oklahoma, Colleen Hufford was beheaded by a black Muslim convert.

-- Within the last two weeks, Carrie Jean Melvin was killed by a shotgun blast to the back of her head  by an unknown black assailant while walking with her boyfriend on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

There is also the casual indifference displayed by the administration to other white deaths:

--  After the gruesome video of the beheading of white journalist James Foley, the President made a statement while on vacation and then went golfing within fifteen minutes after his statement, never once calling the family to offer his condolences.

-- When Major General Harold Greene became the highest ranking battlefield casualty since Vietnam, no one from the administration appeared at his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.

- When Steven Sotloff was beheaded, no attempt was made by the administration to contact the family.

Like the Brown, Gray, Martin and Charleston incidents, these are incidents at least as worthy of the administration's commentary, if not involvement, as are the Brown, Martin, Gray and Charleston cases.  When random acts of violence occur that seem to have a racial component, it behooves the President to use them as -- in his words -- a teachable moment.  Yet it seems that the only people who deserve a lecture are white people and the only lives that warrant such lectures are black people.

It is beyond disgusting how the administration uses sophistry to worm its way out of talking about uncomfortable minority-on-white crime but has no hesitation about becoming involved on white-on-black crime...even when it is later proven that there is no crime.

Perhaps the Reverend Jeremiah Wright influenced President Obama more than he lets on.  But he's supposed to be the President of all the people.

Not just the black people.

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