BY CONTRAST – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:  I fully support the extensive coverage given to the awful church massacre in Charleston – innocent people engaged in Bible reading.  But I wonder why so little attention is given to horror stories elsewhere, in which black lives are also wantonly taken.  From the Chicago Tribune: 

Three men were killed and at least 17 people have been wounded in shootings since Thursday evening across the city’s South Side, police said.

Nine people were shot in the Englewood neighborhood, and two fatal shootings happened within a mile of each other in the Chatham neighborhood.

Around 9:50 p.m., a 43-year-old man died after being shot in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

The man was wounded while walking near his home in the 6600 block of South Champlain Avenue, police said. He was hit in the abdomen, chest and hip and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he later died, police said.

Five minutes later, a 23-year-old man was fatally shot and a 20-year-old man was wounded during a shooting about 9:55 p.m. in the Chatham neighborhood, police said.

And...

One man walked through an alley past the crime scene tape, an earbud in his ear. "You just don't care around here," he said.

"Wow," another passer-by said to a reporter. "You don't hear that. You don't see that on the North Side.

"What is this? What is the world coming to?" she said.

COMMENT:  And those numbers are typical.  We see them duplicated in parts of Baltimore, where chaos and gunfire reign.

And all we get from certain politicians is a cry for more gun control.  The guns, of course, are not firing themselves. 

We're told that black lives matter, and they do.  But they only seem to matter to some political leaders if these leaders can benefit from the heartbreak.  And that is the truth.

June 19,  2015