Where Is Al Sharpton?
Black lives seem to matter less to many when they are taken by black people. A 15-year-oldboy was one of three dead and 32 wounded in weekend shootings, writes Ethel C. Fenig at American Thinker. Yet no one is marching in protest, and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are not appearing on CNN to demand change:

All of the dead were black people, whose lives certainly must have mattered, as were a large majority of the seriously wounded who are now having trouble breathing, even though their alleged black killers didn't think so. But the protesters and the Al Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons ignored these incidents and similar ones all across the country in their ignorance.

The 15-year-old boy in the Chicago incident, a few days shy of his 16th birthday, was walking with his identical twin brother to a school basketball game when they were confronted by other black male teens with a gun. When informed of her son's fate the grief stricken boys' mother collapsed at the scene of the crime; the boy's twin is understandably deeply shaken. The funeral will take place on what would have been the victim's birthday; the surviving twin will pass his birthday at his brother's funeral.

Very helpfully, some students at Mt. Holyoke are insisting that black on black crime is a myth. I'm sure the 15-year-old's mother and twin brother will find that very comforting.