Floyd vs. Riley

Remember the death of George Floyd? It dominated the news for weeks. It triggered a national conversation on race and policing.

There were four separate funerals to accommodate all the politicians and dignitaries who wanted to reap some political benefit from his death. Streets were named after him. Bills were passed in multiple states in his name.

The left immediately exploited Floyd’s death to advance its narrative of systemic racism throughout America and law enforcement. Joe Biden honors George Floyd every year.

The national flagellation went on for months. Police departments were defunded. There was a national orgy of wailing and gnashing of teeth, accompanied by months of riots.

Floyd’s death was the impetus for critical race theory and “diversity, inclusion, and equity” programs being forced on corporations and our children in their schools. It supercharged the neo-Marxist BLM movement.

In short, the left was able to use one incident to massive advance its agenda.

Compare that to the death of Laken Riley, a young female nursing student in Georgia, who was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.

Nothing remotely close to the fallout from Floyd’s death will result from the death of this young woman at the hands of man in our country because of Biden and the left.

Congress will not rush back to close the border. No streets in Georgia will be named after her. Her death is unlikely to spark a national conversation about the dangers of open borders.

Will the media use her death to call attention to the growing number of “Angel Moms” and other victims of criminal illegal aliens?

How will Joe Biden honor Laken Riley? Of course, he won’t honor her in any meaningful way. He hasn’t even said one word about her murder.

And if the media even mention her murder, many left-wing outlets are ignoring the fact that she was killed by an illegal alien. They will move on by tomorrow because her death does nothing to advance the left’s agenda.

Sadly, Laken Riley wasn’t the first and won’t be the last American who is killed because of the insane open borders policies of our feckless politicians.