{"id":53688,"date":"2015-06-03T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53688"},"modified":"2015-06-03T12:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:48:33","slug":"convenientblacklivesmatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53688","title":{"rendered":"#ConvenientBlackLivesMatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As NYC&#8217;s mayor Bill DeBlasio notes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/de-blasios-gang-rationale-1433287156\">they matter a lot less<\/a> when it&#8217;s black people shooting other black people:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think it\u2019s clear that what we have primarily here is a gang and crew problem,\u201d the mayor said last week. \u201cYou know, for those of us who were here in the bad old days\u2014when we had 2,000 murders or more a year\u2014a lot of everyday citizens were getting caught in those crossfires.\u201d He added it\u2019s \u201cequally troubling when, you know, individual gang members shoot other gang members, but it\u2019s a different reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Translation: If young, largely minority men are killing each other over gang turf, then the violent crime revival is no big deal. It won\u2019t hit the trendier corners of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>So whatever happened to Mr. de Blasio\u2019s campaign that \u201cblack lives matter\u201d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like every other crisis that &#8220;progressives&#8221; opt not to waste; they matter when it comes time to manage the public narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As NYC&#8217;s mayor Bill DeBlasio notes, they matter a lot less when it&#8217;s black people shooting other black people: \u201cI think it\u2019s clear that what we have primarily here is a gang and crew problem,\u201d the mayor said last week. \u201cYou know, for those of us who were here in the bad old days\u2014when we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,321,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-left","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53689,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53688\/revisions\/53689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}