POLITICALLY-USEFUL LIVES MATTER: Why No Riots for Ricky Shawatza Hall?

Put Hall on the streets of Ferguson in an identical incident and there would be hell to pay. So why no riot? . . .

The media had a test run with this kind of double standard two years ago with the shooting death of Miriam Carey. Don’t remember Carey? She was the African American dental hygienist shot by the Capitol Hill Police following a bizarre driving incident around the White House and the U.S. Capitol. . . .

“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.

But wait, there’s more:

Just a few days before the story of Trayvon Martin’s killing in Florida became a national sensation, Jose Carranza, 32, was quietly sentenced to 155 years in prison for brutally executing three innocent black college students in a Newark, New Jersey playground. . . .

Like George Zimmerman, Carranza is of Peruvian descent. Ironically, what protected Carranza was the fact that he was “undocumented.” The headline, “Illegal Alien Kills Black Innocents,” appealed to no one in the Media-Democrat complex. Had Zimmerman been illegal, we never would have heard of him. . . .

Twenty years before Zimmerman was arrested, almost to the day, the decision makers in America’s newsrooms had even less use for a headline that read, “Clinton Tank Attack on Religious Community Kills 26 Blacks, 13 Other Minorities.” [See list of those killed, identified by age, race, and nationality, here.] . . .

And fifteen years prior to Waco, no major media publisher anywhere would have dared run a story with a headline, “Bodies of 250 black children dumped in Oakland mass grave: Communist killer had close ties to the Carters, Jerry Brown, Harvey Milk.”

Here are some more links on the Jonestown massacre to flesh out that last bit:

• “Jim Jones, founder of the San Francisco People’s Temple, in truth numbered Democratic politicians, not Republicans, among his admirers.”
• Why did so many black women die? Jonestown at 35. “About 75% of Peoples Temple members were African American, 20% were white and 5% were Asian, Latino and Native American. The majority of its black members were women, while its core leadership was predominantly white.”
• Jonestown memorial unveiled after 32 years: “More than 400 of the Jonestown victims are buried in a mass grave at Evergreen [Cemetary in Oakland], the only cemetery in the United States to accept the bodies because of the stigma associated with Jonestown. For decades, the site was marked only by a modest granite stone erected just after the burial.”