SEVENTY-FOUR people were shot, 12 fatally, in Chicago over the weekend of August 3.

These shootings have not prompted intense coverage and a non-stop campaign for gun control in the media as did the alleged school shootings at Parkland and Sandy Hook. Why? It cannot be that black lives categorically don’t matter, in the political sense. Remember Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown? They were single black victims and their deaths were the focus of apocalyptic coverage.

If you cannot explain this relative silence, dear reader, you should not be following the news at all (which is a good idea anyway).

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