It doesn’t seem like too long ago, but there was a time when Black Lives Matter really mattered.

Think back to 2020, when the Marxist group was on the march, rioting all during that long hot summer, wrecking and burning and looting, defacing and defiling statues of Washington and Jefferson and even the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.

That caught our attention, sure. But think about corporate America back then. Think about JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and the rest of them, coughing up all those millions to the race-hustling racket known as BLM. Think about the Democrats in Congress, ostentatiously taking a knee in the Capitol building while donning their Kente cloths and at the same time shrugging their shoulders at the execution-style murder of a five-year-old white boy named Cannon Hinnant, who’d been out riding his bike in front of his house when he was shot point-blank in the head, right in front of his sisters, by a 25-year-old black neighbor named Darius Sessoms.

But while the BLM riots of four years ago were precipitated by the death of career criminal George Floyd, they had their roots in a couple of racial riots from years earlier. There was the phony Michael Brown “hands up, don’t shoot” hoax of Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, followed by the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore a year later. There was also the Kenosha, Wisconsin, riot of August 2020 following the thoroughly justified police shooting of a thug named Jacob Blake — a riot that caused a kid named Kyle Rittenhouse to defend his own life with deadly force. In each of these cases, the anger had been directed at cops specifically and at “white supremacy” more generally.

Thankfully, though, that Black Lives Matter dog no longer seems to hunt. What was once righteous anger in our urban centers and even suburbs has been replaced by an almost comical indifference. It seems, thankfully, that the American people, black and white, have come to realize that not every black-and-white encounter is a racial atrocity on the level of Emmett Till.

Take New York-based rabble-rouser Hawk Newsome, for example. The cofounder of the Greater New York Black Lives Matter chapter has been out front lately, trying to make himself relevant by protesting the death of a deranged and violent career criminal named Jordan Neely, ostensibly at the hands of a heroic Good Samaritan and Marine Corps veteran named Daniel Penny, whom a Manhattan jury on Monday rightly acquitted of reckless homicide and then second-degree manslaughter charges.

Here’s what Newsome had to say about the dismissal of the most serious charge on Friday: “Today, white supremacy got another victory. Today, the KKK, the klansmen, the evil in America got another victory.”

Predictably, Newsome and his fellow racial arsonists doubled down after Penny’s ultimate acquittal on Monday. “We need some Black vigilantes,” he said following the verdict. “People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?”

BREAKING: BLM leader Hawk Newsome calls for “black vigilantes” to get active following Daniel Penny’s acquittal pic.twitter.com/YoBUXOW9Yr

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“America will never fix the issue of black people,” he added, “because America needs a punching bag. They have designated us as the punching bag.”

“Small world, buddy,” said Newsome in a not-so-veiled threat to Penny, while his sister Chivona screamed that America is a “f***ing racist country.”

Unfortunately for the Newsomes, and for most everyone else trying to make a buck in the race industry, business is bad. As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman wrote earlier this week: “On Monday, 12 New Yorkers refused to buckle under the weight of racial grievance politics. … Perhaps this verdict serves as a bold sign that Americans have finally had enough of the BLM hysteria and mob mentality that demands guilt despite the facts so long as the accused is white.”

Indeed, even in Manhattan — which votes nearly 90% Democrat and whose woke district attorney, Alvin Bragg, routinely sees the world through race-colored glasses — they’re saying, Enough.