"Red and Yellow, Black and White"--They Are All Precious

You know the hymn, "Jesus Loves the Little Children,"  with the lyrics, "red and yellow, black and white. They are precious in his sight..." 

So where is the call to take away the guns when an African-American child is shot in the middle of gang fire? 

This is not a post about the right to bears arms or an attempt to disrespect the Newtown victims.

But rather, it's a question to the public about the lack of outcry when gun victims aren't White.

The NRA (National Rifle Association) took down its Facebook page and Twitter account in response to the Newtown shooting. Why now? Why not when Trayvon Martin died? Maybe one Black kid dying is not enough to get the NRA to respond.

When will President Obama issue a public response to the families in poor neighborhoods who experience gun violence on a regular basis? He is from Chicago and should know first-hand the number of inner-city children who have been victims to gun-related fatalities.

Perhaps, this shooting broke America's collective bubble about safety in America. Even the schools in the rich suburbs aren't safe. That makes me shutter. Maybe the mainstream would rather be in the dark about gun violence, but now we know--guns are colorblind.

Read more about race and violence at Clutch Magazine.