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A five year old girl who had done nothing wrong was wantonly murdered as she sat on the lap of her grandfather. You haven’t heard about it? That’s not surprising; while the Al Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons of the world posture and bloviate about violence and a lack of respect for human life that permeates communities, they routinely keep quiet about attacks that happen every single day in America unless the victim was a person of color and there are television cameras pointed at them.
You see, the left isn’t interested in
telling the story of the murder of Laylah Petersen because Petersen
doesn’t fit the preferred narrative. What I mean is: Petersen was white.
While sitting on her grandfather’s
lap, a hail of bullets rang throughout the house in a mostly-black
neighborhood in Milwaukee. Reports indicate that two black males went to the door of the house and opened fire on the house that belonged to Laylah’s grandparents.
The neighborhood in which Laylah’s grandparents lived is 77% black and only 14% white.
Of course, nobody will ever know the
true motive behind this heinous crime; but then again, nobody bothered
to ask about the motive before Sharpton, Jackson, Attorney General Eric
Holder and the partisan media pounced on the shooting deaths of Trayvon
Martin and Michael Brown.
All they knew is that a black person
was killed by a white (or, in the case of Martin, a Hispanic) person.
All other facts melted away in the early moments of rage and rhetoric
and little Laylah Petersen lies dead and the race-hustlers and dividers
don’t give a… darn.
Even if we account for the conflicting
version of events surrounding the deaths of Martin and Brown, we can
see that the issue is more-complicated than originally suspected. Brown
had just robbed a store and allegedly attacked police officers. Martin
had allegedly scuffled with George Zimmerman and went for Zimmerman’s
gun.
What the hell could Laylah Petersen
possibly have done? She was five years old and sitting on her
grandfather’s knee in the relative safety of her grandparents’ home. Was
she a Crip from a rival set? Did she owe bookies money? Had she
perpetrated a drive-by earlier in the day and this shooting was
retaliation? All highly unlikely scenarios…
So, I ask again: where are the
supposed defenders of innocent life? Where are the race-hustlers
demanding a full accounting of what is being done to see that justice is
done?
Somehow, I can’t help but believe that this would receive more attention if Laylah wasn’t white.
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