Last weekend in Atlanta an 8-year-old black girl was fatally shot by a stray bullet while she was riding in a car with her mother. Her name has not become a household word, like that of George Floyd, who was, let's remember, a criminal who did jail time more than once. This is because she was not killed by a white cop but by a black hoodlum.Little Secoriea Turner did not become an instant hero known the world over. Al Sharpton did not eulogize her, there was no gold casket bearing her tiny body through the streets of the city, and there were no citizen protests. Not one painting of her image appeared anywhere.
Instead, people voiced outrage over a 25-year-old white woman in the National Women's Soccer League who did not kneel during the playing of the National Anthem last Saturday night. A popular player on the Chicago Red Stars, Rachel Hill chose to stand to honor her family's military history. This earned her a barrage of online criticism, causing her to defend herself --- for not kneeling! She also apologized for not being "diligently anti-racist." Meanwhile the Chicago gang murders continue every weekend, with growing numbers of dead black people going unsung by the press and the leaders of Black Lives Matter. I guess their lives don't matter until a white cop ends them.
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