The other night a 21 year old white male shot up a church and killed 9 people, all of whom were black. Reports soon followed that depicted the shooter as a white supremacist. He favored decorative license plates bearing confederate flags and is said to have expressed concern about black men raping white women as a reason for why he felt compelled to shoot up a black church.
It is not surprising an event like this has happened. If a shooting spree can happen in an elementary school attended by mostly white children it can surely happen in a historically black church. The Sandy Hook shooting is the new normal so they say. Until something fundamental changes in the way the country regulates firearms or commits violence in the name of its citizens events like last night’s shooting only bring us one step closer to another Sandy Hook-like massacre, except this next one will be even more horrific.
But what do you expect from a country whose leaders care more about their bank accounts than for the welfare of their communities? This goes for communities of all races and colors. Whites don’t have a monopoly on corruption and moral failings. They are just better at getting away with it than blacks are. But blacks of course pay a much heavier price than whites do when they are thrown under the bus by their leaders, and that will remain the case for a long time to come.
Right now our country has no idea who its enemies are. One would think that with the kind of sweeping data mining and surveillance programs our government has put into place that this question would not be such a hard one to answer. We like to blame the brown and yellow as the ones who pose the gravest threat to our national security. For the brown, American- and foreign-born alike, we offer drones and Hellfire missles. For the less vulnerable yellow we simply snipe and saber rattle. But mostly we act like the high school bully — you know, the one who will never get it together to leave home and will end up flipping burgers until he is 35, at which point he will spend increasingly more and more time drunk, stoned and in jail.
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