Why are 'racial justice' advocates silent on other 17-year-old? :: 03/26/2012

"Blacks are under attack," Jesse Jackson told his followers yesterday , attributing the shooting death of Trayvon Martin to white racism.

"Targeting, arresting, convicting blacks and ultimately killing us is big business," he claimed from his Rainbow Push office in Chicago, promising "No justice, no peace. The indifference to this kind of pain is just going to intensify the protests."

Another group was more direct :

Yesterday afternoon at a press conference, the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense circulated a "wanted dead or alive" poster for George Zimmerman for shooting to death a Florida teenager four weeks ago.

"Minister Mikhail Muhummud...told the group he was not concerned with rumors of death threats to George Zimmerman, 'He should be afraid for his life...'" Allvoices reports.

Those stirring up the mob are taking full advantage of anger, and it's hard not to think of the death of the Florida teen as an opportunity for their self-promotion, as opposed to a sincere concern for color-blind justice.

Case in point, there's another black Florida 17-year-old, another shooting of the unarmed, and another confrontation with whites the outraged activists are silent about: Shawn Tyson is accused of shooting two British tourists to death. From the Associated Press on Florida Today :

Prosecutor Ed Brodsky said Tyson told a friend that the men were lost and that he then tried to rob them. The tourists told Tyson they didn't have any money and pleaded for their lives.

Brodsky said Tyson told his friend: "Since you ain't got no money, then I have something for your a--."

The "racial justice" leaders, of course, are silent on this atrocity, even though Tyson and his half-brother used the term "crackers" as a slur in a recorded prison phone call.

Does the lack of vocal, organized "community leader" outrage surprise anyone?