Following the Dallas police massacre that left 5 officers dead at the hands of a black supremacist, Rolling Stone has announced that people don't need to say "Blue Lives Matter" because that would be racist. 

In an op-ed, columnist Natasha Lennard exclaims that she "won't say Blue Lives Matter, because it does not need to be said."

According to Lennard -- falsely -- police lives matter far more to the American public than black lives; this is apparent in the mass outrage over the murders of the Dallas cops and President Obama's immediate response, which Lennard feels doesn't happen enough when blacks die at the hands of police officers. As if Obama's comments after the deaths Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Alton Sterling meant nothing. 

While the president’s remarks earlier in the week on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were moving, dozens of unarmed black men killed by cop go without presidential comment. For instance, U.S. police killed more than 100 unarmed black men last year alone. The fact that there are too many such killings for Obama to speak to individually? That's what not mattering looks like in a society.

Lennard didn't go into detail on those supposed stats, because she'd probably discover a mountain of evidence showing that those deaths are a little less, dare we say, "black and white" and then she wouldn't be able to morally blackmail readers into her point of view. 

Though Lennard goes on to say that no officer's life should be taken and she doesn't advocate their deaths, it's nothing more than a smokescreen to distract readers into thinking she doesn't find some sick poetic justice in the Dallas massacre, because her very last statement implies that the notion of insisting that cops' lives matter is, in itself, a racist construct.  

"We don't need a Blue Lives Matter movement to assert that cops' lives matter," she writes. "That fact is as established in this country as white supremacy."