DO BLACK LIVES MATTER? – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:44 A.M. ET:  We've heard the slogan.  We'll probably see the movie.  But what is the reality?  The reality is that only certain black lives matter – those that serve the interests of black leaders like Al Sharpton.  Other black lives don't matter at all.  From Rich Lowry at The Politico: 

Let’s be honest: Some black lives really don’t matter. If you are a young black man shot in the head by another young black man, almost certainly no one will know your name. Al Sharpton won’t come rushing to your family’s side with cameras in tow. MSNBC won’t discuss the significance of your death. No one will protest, or even riot, for you. You are a statistic, not a cause. Just another dead black kid in some city somewhere, politically useless to progressives and the media, therefore all but invisible.

The same Memorial Day weekend during which there were nearly 30 shootings and nine mostly young people were murdered in Baltimore, demonstrators were out in force, blocking traffic — not to protest the shootings, of course, but the state of Maryland funding a youth jail in a city that rather desperately needs a youth jail.

COMMENT:  So well said.  And I believe that Lowry is reflecting a growing opinion across the country, a country that is eminently fair when addressing legitimate grievances, but harsh when it spots a phony.  And the phonies are everywhere.

May 29, 2015