Heather Mac Donald criticized what she described as a lack of national attention to the deaths of young black children killed in neighborhood shootings, contrasting those cases with high-profile incidents that have drawn widespread media coverage and public protest.

Mac Donald pointed to cases she has documented over the years involving children struck by stray bullets during everyday activities.

“The black children that I’ve documented over the years who’ve been playing on trampolines at barbecues, sleeping in their beds at birthday parties, one year olds, three year olds, five year olds, nine year olds, who are shot by stray bullets in drive by shootings, who are killed, who are rendered brain damage for the rest of their lives,” she said.

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She argued that the response would be different if the victims were white.

“If white kids were killed at that rate, there would be a revolution,” Mac Donald said.

“It’s a very bizarre thing.”

Mac Donald said public discussions about racism often do not include the cases she referenced.

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“We talk about racism all the time as an abstraction, and we claim that we care so much about black lives,” she said.

“But these black children that are getting gunned down, nobody talks about them.”

She singled out media outlets and activists for what she described as silence on those cases.

“Above all the media, above all the Black Lives Matter. Activists, I have never, ever witnessed a Black Lives Matter rally to protest three year old Honesty Cheadle,” Mac Donald said.

She identified Honesty Cheadle as a 3-year-old killed in Washington, D.C.

“She was killed July 5 at a fourth of July barbecue in Washington DC. Drive by shooting,” Mac Donald said.

Mac Donald contrasted the lack of public recognition for Cheadle with other names that have become nationally known.

“Have we said her name?” she asked.

“We’re supposed to say the name of George Floyd. We’re supposed to say the name of Michael Brown. Nobody said the name of Honesty Cheadle.”

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