Black Lives Don’t Matter to The Philadelphia Inquirer

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I rather mockingly tweeted, on Sunday around 11:30 AM:

At 10:33 AM EDT this morning, I checked the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page, and it stated that as of 11:59 PM EDT on Sunday, May 2, 2021, there had been 176 homicides in the City of Brotherly Love so far this year. The previous update showed 169 homicides as of 11:59 PM EDT on Thursday, April 29, 2021. (The site is only updated Monday through Friday, so there are no separate totals for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Naturally, I checked The Philadelphia Inquirer’s website immediately after the Current Crime Statistics page, and there was not a single story on the rather long main page about any of the killings. Not a single one!

I’m pretty good in math, but perhaps I made a mistake. I did it twice, just to be sure, and I came up with 176 – 169 = 7. I did get that right, didn’t I?

So, if I got the math right, there were seven murders in Philadelphia over the weekend — counting Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights as the weekend — yet none of the journolists journalists or editors at the Inquirer found that newsworthy?

There was an article, “Black-owned school-lunch business moving to Philly area to create ‘culturally relevant’ meals for kids,” dated April 30th, still on the main page, and an article about a golf club agreeing to admit women as members, “Reports: Pine Valley to admit women as members, provide unrestricted access to guests,” dated two days ago, and even this large section, on Asian American and Pacific Islander activism, with some articles dating from over a month ago, but not one word about seven homicides in Philly over the weekend.

The tremendously #woke staff of the Inquirer were so concerned that #BlackLivesMatter that they forced the firing resignation of Senior Vice President Stan Wischnowski for entitling an article “Buildings Matter, Too,” seem to have no concern at all for black lives lost to the carnage on Philly’s mean streets, at least not enough concern to publish a paragraph of two when they are snuffed out.

The truth is simple: there is no evidence, no evidence at all, that black lives matter to the staff of the Inquirer

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