Last month, when Baton Rouge police shot Alton Sterling after he reached for his gun, Black Lives Matter descended on the city and staged one protest after another to decry police racism. But this month, when flood waters overtook homes and displaced thousands of black lives, the movement was nowhere to be found.

The hypocrisy is stunning. Do black lives matter only when threatened by the police? That’s what some Baton Rouge residents are asking.

Jerry L. Washington posted live to Facebook as he drove around the water-logged city asking that very question:

“I want to know, where are the Black Lives Matter and the Black Panthers? Because I ain’t seen one Black Panther boat or one Black Lives Matter boat. All I see is our own people from our city… police… saving us, going in and rescuing people. I’ve seen plenty of brothers who got boats and trucks going in and rescuing people…

“So, with all the drama that was going on with the Alton Sterling killing; oh, they came out with guns and ready to go to war. But here we go — all these people flooded out and truly in need of some help and you can’t find not one of them… Where your boats? Where your money? Where your food?

“Black Lives Matter? Obviously, we don’t matter too much, ‘cause I aint’ seen y’all, yet, when we really need you. We ain’t really need you for the war, but we really need you for this flood.”

As The Washington Times notes, the BLM movement only mustered a Facebook posting to promote a company offering free family photos to victims whose pictures were destroyed. That post garnered multiple comments asking why they could show up to stir trouble last month but can’t seem to care enough to show up now. 

Those coming to the defense of the group maintained it wasn’t part of their “core concept” — which apparently isn’t black lives at all.