#ConvenientBlackLivesMatter
By Mitch Berg
As NYC’s mayor Bill DeBlasio notes, they matter a lot less when it’s black people shooting other black people:
“I think it’s clear that what we have primarily here is a gang and crew problem,” the mayor said last week. “You know, for those of us who were here in the bad old days—when we had 2,000 murders or more a year—a lot of everyday citizens were getting caught in those crossfires.” He added it’s “equally troubling when, you know, individual gang members shoot other gang members, but it’s a different reality.”
Translation: If young, largely minority men are killing each other over gang turf, then the violent crime revival is no big deal. It won’t hit the trendier corners of Brooklyn.
So whatever happened to Mr. de Blasio’s campaign that “black lives matter”?
Like every other crisis that “progressives” opt not to waste; they matter when it comes time to manage the public narrative.
June 3rd, 2015 at 1:29 pm
Pretty darned scary that he’s admitting this. It is as if he knows the media will shield him from saying that black lives do not matter as long as they’re in the hood. Or he doesn’t care.