Last year’s bloodiest Chicago weekend saw 82 shot and 14 killed in one weekend.
Those are the kinds of numbers that give the city its Chiraq nickname and the victims tend to be black. That’s something they have in common with the victims of the latest mass shootings.
But they don’t get the same kind of coverage because the shooters were also black.
The media has decided that black lives only matter when a white man takes them. Mass shootings don’t matter when black people kill other black people.
They only matter when they can be used to reinforce a narrative about white people.
Either black lives matter or they don’t. But the media insists that black lives only matter when they can be fitted into a narrative with white villains or heroes.
Or within liberal political agendas about gun control.
The truly disturbing thing is that unlike the latest shooting, the death toll out of Chicago is an ongoing event. It doesn’t stop when one man is caught and arrested.
There’s no convenient villain to take down. There’s no easy answer. There’s no one to blame.
What happened in that church was tragic, but six people have already been shot in Chicago. And that’s an ongoing tragedy that doesn’t stop.
by Daniel Greenfield
