Black On Black Murder Victims: Nobody Cares
John Perazzo makes some good points at FrontPageMag.com:

Spearheaded by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the massive, escalating protests over Trayvon Martin's February 26th death in Florida--protests featuring desperate pleas to "stop the killing of our children"--continue to rivet the nation's collective attention. By contrast, the death of 63-year-old Tommie Lee Caldwell a few weeks earlier created no such stir. One morning this past December, Caldwell, an African American who was caring for his terminally ill wife, was stabbed and then shot in the back of the head by an intruder inside his Detroit home. If you're like most people, you've never heard of Mr. Caldwell prior to this moment. His murderer was black--not a "white Hispanic" like George Zimmerman--so the guardians of "civil rights," like Jackson and Sharpton, were spared the trouble, at least in that instance, of having to gin up a national referendum on America's unyielding, ubiquitous racism.

The "civil rights" crowd was likewise silent two months ago when a 19-year-old African American named Joshua Brown--angered over a dispute with a black Detroit woman named Almanda Talton--shot and killed the woman's 12-year old daughter, Kade'jah Davis, a sixth-grade honor student.

...the proverbial elephant in the living room quietly awaits recognition: For at least 35 years, no fewer than 94% of all black victims of homicide have been killed by other blacks. In fact, blacks themselves commit the vast majority of all types of violent crimes against African Americans; whites are responsible for only 12% of such offenses. Given these stark and immensely significant realities, what possible rationale could there be for demanding that an entire nation engage in an orgy of self-examination and self-flagellation--"soul-searching," as President Obama calls it--over an incident of a type that almost never happens? And by the same token, why do the stalwart defenders of "civil rights" invariably turn a blind eye to black-on-black assaults, which, over the past half century, have filled more graveyards and caused more human misery in black communities than all the white racists in America, combined?

By no means, of course, are black victims of black violence the only people about whom the champions of "civil rights" are utterly unconcerned. To be sure, white victims of black offenders are just as uninteresting to this bunch. Scarcely two weeks after Trayvon Martin's death, a black male broke into the Tulsa, Oklahoma home of an 85-year-old white woman named Nancy Strait, sexually assaulting her, battering her to death, and, for good measure, shooting her 90-year-old husband in the face with a BB gun. About a month prior to the Martin killing, a black carjacker in Louisiana shot and killed a white man who tried to come to the aid of the jacker's female victim. Also in January, one black and two Hispanics in Philadelphia attacked Kevin Kless, a 23-year-old white man who was trying to hail a cab, and beat him to death. Last December in Fort Worth, Texas, a black career-criminal sexually assaulted and killed a 59-year-old white woman named Jo Beth Marchand, who was described by those who knew her as a person of "gentleness and unconditional love."

...Because such victims have no racial currency for loudmouthed agitators whose entire careers are dependent upon an ability to portray white racism as a plague that can scarcely be restrained, their deaths are not just quickly forgotten, but in most cases go wholly unnoticed.

Roger Simon writes at PJMedia that the media "enabled" Sharpton by treating him "as if he were a serious person":

The media, as I wrote before, treated this case like pornography, something to be exploited, giving it all sorts of racial import it didn't have. The New York Times, acting like true reactionaries of the Obama era (how can we use the word "liberal" with these people?), even went so far as to invent the term "white Hispanic" to fit the case. The National Enquirer couldn't have done it better. (I take it back. The Enquirer behaves more ethically.)

The irony is that the people who suffer most from the media behaving in this manner are black people who are manipulated into acting as an interest group when they have no interest. They are literally victims of the media and of Obama.

Of course, they aren't the only ones. Almost everyone is a victim in in this case that should never have been tried. George Zimmerman will never live a normal life. The American public has been polarized with emotions stirred up for absolutely no reason. Racism is essentially manufactured, as if it were a commodity.

A further irony is that recent polls have shown racism in our culture at all-time lows. You don't hear that from the media or from our administration, however. This knowledge is not to their advantage.