Who gets believed, in our age of ever-present media, is who talks the loudest. Donald Trump, for example.

Then there’s the Black Lives Matter movement, with its clamorous dedication to the idea that white racism is behind the killing of black men around the country, nothing else — not circumstance, not misjudgment, not fear — just out-and-out racism, end of discussion, period, shut up.

Accordingly, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman’s morally incontestable claim — “all lives matter” — isn’t getting much traction with those committed to the Black Lives Matter narrative. A black man shoots an off-duty but uniformed white deputy in the back, pumping additional lead into him as he lies on the ground. Yes, too bad. But let’s not confuse it with the real issue, as defined by Black Lives Matter and the national media after the cop shootings in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland — that issue being… Black Lives Matter.

Read the article “Do ‘All Lives Matter’ or Not?” on realclearpolitics.com.