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Black Lives Matter. That was the slogan painted on streets, printed on corporate banners, and chanted on college campuses across America.But apparently it comes with fine print.If you are a Christian farmer in Nigeria's Plateau State, or a Catholic praying at a church vigil in eastern Congo, your life does not seem to make the list.According to Open Doors' 2026 World Watch List, 3,490 Nigerian Christians were killed for their faith in a single year. That is 72 percent of all Christians killed for their faith worldwide.In Congo, the ISIS-linked ADF stormed a Catholic church in Komanda during a night vigil and cut down worshippers with machetes. Dozens dead.Where are the hashtags? Where are the marches? Where are the celebrities posting black squares?Silence.Now compare that to Gaza. The same activists who could not find Nigeria on a map scream "genocide" at Israel every single day.But look at what Israel actually did. It dropped leaflets. It sent texts and made phone calls warning civilians to leave before strikes. It let aid trucks roll in during a war it did not start.That is not how genocide works. Genocide does not send a warning.Genocide comes like a thief in the night. It looks like October 7, when Hamas terrorists murdered roughly 1,200 people in their homes and at a music festival.It looks like jihadists riding into a Nigerian village after dark, cutting the phone lines, and going door to door.So why the double standard? Why do dead Christians in Africa get a shrug while Gaza gets wall-to-wall outrage?Is it really about Palestinian lives? Or is it about who gets blamed, and the fact that Israel is a Jewish state?Whatever the answer, it is hypocritical. It is inhumane. And it tells you the slogan was never really about lives at all.Why do you think the people who shout loudest about human rights go quiet when the victims are Christian?