Black Lives Only Matter If They Are Taken by Whites | Intellectual Takeout

Black Lives Only Matter If They Are Taken by Whites | Intellectual Takeout
"Social media rang with righteous indignation over the senseless killing of Jazmine Barnes, who was shot and killed while riding in a car along with her mother and three sisters on a Texas highway on Dec. 30.
The gunman, who was identified as a white man, allegedly drove a red pickup truck and fired upon the Barnes family seemingly randomly and without any provocation. 
A picture quickly emerged of a racist murderer on the loose, hell-bent on killing innocent black children.
All of the usual alarms were triggered. 
New York Daily News writer Shaun King, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, who was made famous in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri, protests, rushed to tweet out accusations about the alleged suspect, a man named Robert Cantrell.
...One of those tips ultimately led to the arrest of two suspects, both of whom turned out to be African-American males.
...Prominent Dallas civil rights attorney Lee Merritt also joined the case, primarily due to his belief (based on the initial description of the suspect) that the shooting was racially motivated.
“That’s why I was brought on,” Merritt told the Washington Post last week. “We want to emphasize the racial nature of the attack and that hate-crime charges are appropriate.”
Merritt’s statement begs the question, of course: Aren’t most murders, by definition, crimes of hatred?

• When, on Monday, the new suspect was arrested and it appeared the motive was not race-related, the hoopla immediately died down. 
• Gone was the righteous indignation on social media. 
• No more celebrity attorneys announced they were interested in the case...