WaPo race activist Wesley Lowery couldn’t come up with his own question to ask Hillary Clinton in a Facebook chat Monday.
So he posed a question on behalf of the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
But please don’t confuse him for an activist.
This gave Clinton a chance to explain how she thinks black lives really do matter. Not all lives — which doesn’t play well to the electorate — but specifically black lives because we need to “acknowledge some hard truths about race and justice in this country.”
There’s no way Clinton would risk addressing all lives. When Democratic presidential contender Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley dared to suggest that all lives matter during a discussion Saturday on police violence against African Americans at the liberal Netroots Nation conference, he nearly got booed off the stage. Later that day he apologized.
Meanwhile, Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross asked Hillary if all lives matter.
So far she has ignored his question.
In other recent Wesley Lowery news, he may face up to a year in prison if a St. Louis County prosecutors charge him with trespassing.
The cutoff date is August 3.
My plea to St. Louis County prosecutors: Wesley Lowery’s life matters. But if he has to do time, The Mirror promises to write and visit him often.