All lives matter
So, Leonard Pitts thinks that “all lives matter” are words of “moral cowardice” (‘All lives matter’ — words of moral cowardice, Sunday, Aug. 23)? He compares “all lives matter” to someone with a broken wrist, and the doctor wants to examine all other bones because “all bones matter”! That comparison goes beyond stupid.
Apparently black lives matter only when the killer is a white, or a policeman. Dozens of black people die every day at the hands of other blacks, but those lives don’t matter. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of babies are aborted every year, but those lives don’t matter. Black criminals, felons on parole ambush and gun down white policemen in the streets, but those lives don’t matter.
Mr. Pitts “cringes” whenever conservatives invoke the name, legacy, or message of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but ignores liberals who do the same thing. Well, sorta. Conservatives point out when people claim to be doing King’s work, yet are only lining their own pockets. Liberals use King’s message when it’s convenient, then ignore it completely when it isn’t.
The national media LOVE it when a black dies at the hands of a white because that generates emotions. Especially when the media whip up the flames of hatred and racism. “If it bleeds, it leads” is the litmus test for news. The more bleeding, the more news and the more revenue for the media.
If the media gave the same coverage to black-on-black killings as they do white-on-black, then perhaps the racially blind people like Mr. Pitts wouldn’t be so quick to jump on the latest bandwagon and sing off-key about how “black lives matter, but all lives don’t.”
By the way, who gave Mr. Pitts, but no one else, insight as to just by what Dr. King would have been pleased or not? I sincerely believe that black racist hucksters like Mr. Pitts, the “Revs” Sharpton and Jackson and a host of others have no clue as to what would please Dr. King or not. They’re too busy making money off of the lives of black deaths, and that’s why black lives matter, to them, but other lives don’t.
Cameron Triplett
Brooksville
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