Selective Outrage

“I know my son, he’s a good kid,” so said Jennifer Luna, mother of one of the three Oklahoma teens allegedly accused of shooting an Australian baseball player to death. To Ms. Luna’s way of thinking I guess good kids get bored sometimes and resort to shooting innocent people when playing basketball and video games just won’t do.

Then last week a World War II veteran was allegedly killed by two Spokane teenagers; three others have also been implicated for rendering criminal assistance

Media hypocrisy is reaching critical mass as demonstrated in these latest violent incidents. It was nearly impossible for a day to go by without a sympathetic slanting of events by the media about Trayvon Martin. The racial hucksters were as plentiful as canine excrement in a dog run. They were out in force issuing demonstration logistics and innuendo. The president and many others weighed in with their less than objective views. Here, in these two cases, information about the attackers has slowed to a trickle. And worse where is the outrage? Do white victims deserve less sympathy?

These were cases of cold-blooded murder. In Oklahoma, Christopher Lane, an Australian athlete was cowardly stalked and shot in the back. In Spokane, Delbert Belton, barely 5 foot tall, an 88-year-old, World War II veteran, who was wounded in combat, was beaten to death and robbed. In the Martin case there was a self defense component; even though if it was widely disputed.

Trayvon was shot by a “White Hispanic” a term I had never heard before. In Oklahoma a white man was killed by a mixed racial triumvirate (two African-Americans and one white teen). How did these three idiots decide on their victim. Did the two African-Americans invoke a majority vote? Did they draw straws? Was the choice of victim unanimous? Did it matter that the victim was white? Was he targeted merely because he was? One might reasonably assume that the Spokane victim, Mr. Belton was targeted because of his diminutive size. But he, too, may have been racially targeted.

If the perpetrators were white and the victims black, we would see an outcry for the 21^st century version of the lynch mob.

But justice being blind, I’m sure Attorney General Eric Holder will give these cases the same attention as the Martin case.