Christopher Lane. Have you heard this name? No? What about Delbert "Shorty" Belton? No bells ringing in your head? Nothing on the news?
Christopher Lane, 23, was gunned down by three teens (two 16-year-olds and one 17-year-old) in Duncan, Okla. while he was out jogging last week. They shot Lane in the back from a moving vehicle because ... well, as the police chief described it, the teens decided to kill somebody at random. One of the teens said, "We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody." Some media outlets are mentioning a gang initiation but this is only a theory.
It was a "thrill kill" by two black teens and one white teen. One of the black teens Tweeted "With my niggas when it's time to start taken life's" before the murder. He also Tweeted back in April, "90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM." Their names are James Edwards Jr. (the Tweeter), Chancey Luna and Michael Jones. Have you heard these names? No?
Christopher Lane was a promising baseball player from Australia who was here on a college scholarship. After his murder, former Australian deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer called on Australians to boycott the United States because of our lax gun laws and violence.
But let's not forget about Delbert "Shorty" Belton (too bad you probably don't know who he is in the first place), the 88-year-old World War II veteran who was wounded at Okinawa. He was recently beaten to death outside the Eagles Lodge in Spokane, Wash. -- he had serious injuries to his head. It was a random attack by two black youths between the ages of 16 and 19, according to video surveillance. Belton was waiting outside for a friend because he did not want her to walk home alone.
Knock, knock, anybody home? After Trayvon Martin was killed, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about it but now? Where's the outrage? Where's the #justiceforchristopher or #justicefordelbert on Twitter? Anybody? Do we not care because the victims were white and the majority of the perpetrators were black? Would we care if it was black-on-black crime? Would we only care if it was white-on-black crime? Do we not care because the media hasn't told us to care?
It's interesting the Rev. Al Sharpton and President Barack Obama, who were so vocal during the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman case, are silent. Don't white people matter?
