Timing was everything. Democrats needed a cause to get black voters to turn out in 2012, and the Trayvon Martin case was a gift from heaven. Then in 2014 the Micheal Brown case did the same thing. But there were other, similar, cases that didn't get anywhere near the attention. It's as if those other stories were downplayed by the msm because they wouldn't complement the narrative.
That brings us to a recent article by Jack Cashill. Mr. Cashill, you'll recall, did the excellent detective work of compiling the evidence that Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama's autobiography. I think of Cashill as a forensic bibliographer.
Now he's connecting the dots on recent cases of police killing citizens in Why No Riots for Ricky Shawatza Hall?
Mr. Cashill recalls the deaths of Ricky Shawatza Hall and Miriam Carey at the hands of law enforcement in Washington DC. Both of these two individuals breached a security perimeter and were shot to death. Both of these two individuals were black, one was a woman, and the other was dressed as a woman. Why no outrage? Mr. Cashill helps us out here with this:
What demands explanation is why the media and the Department of Justice have applied such disparate standards in the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown on one hand and Miriam Carey and Ricky Shawatza Hall on the other.
The answer is fairly obvious. “Black lives matter” or “LGBTQ lives matter” only when those deaths advance the agenda of the Democrat-media complex. With Obama in the White House, the shooting death of a black person and/or a gay person by federal officers scores no political points.
The heads of America’s major newsrooms sense this instinctively. They don’t need to be told. The minor newsrooms follow the major ones. Activists, black and gay, are reading the same tea leaves.
It's all about partisan politics and gaining power.
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