The senseless murder of those two reporters in Virginia is being looked at the wrong way by prominent people in our country.
It was not just another matter of needless gun violence, but more importantly, it was a hate crime.
Why our legislators are jumping over this facet of what happened the other day is beyond me ... but maybe not that far beyond me, where I cannot understand what a double standard period we are going through right now.
Yes, the shooter was right, he was a powder keg just ready to boil over.
He was a former reporter for the same station that the two he killed worked for, but had had work problems, related to working with others and also racial baiting.
He had had similar problems elsewhere, filed suits related to discrimination elsewhere, and every one, with the exception of one, was thrown out by whatever court legislated over them.
He also just happened to be black and gay.
He constantly claimed that he was the real victim in each instance, because of his color and his sexuality.
And when he couldn't take it anymore, he praised the depraved students at Columbine, and than did his own thing, ambushing two innocent, young, and just so happens, white news people, and nearly killed a third person, the person, who just happened to be white, who was being interviewed.
And yes, he did claim that he was starting a race war.
Unfortunately, the only "race war" he started was nudging the two snails--blacks and whites--to see who can go slower in recognizing what this incident was, a clear racially motivated hate crime.
Yes, our president brings up that this is another notch in the gun violence that is sweeping our nation, and he is not wrong in that assertion.
But he, as usual, is skirting the main issue, that with all the racial elements to the case, this was a clear hate crime, and yes, I do believe that the silence of our nation's leaders on this facet of the crime--the main facet of the crime--does show that there is a double standard in place in our country, one perpetuated by our president and others who have the power to see it for what it is, but basically are walking around pouting, but doing nothing else.
Although I hate to compare one horrific tragedy to another, we only have to go back a few months in time to the church killings, where nine innocent people were gunned down by a lunatic who spouted anti-black, anti-Jewish, and neo-Nazi thoughts when he did what he did.
The nation was up in arms about this incident, the heinous nature of it, as well we should be.
A church is supposed to be a sanctuary for thought, discussion and prayer, not used as a shooting range.
And the uproar led to the Confederate flag being removed where it still blew in the wind, another level of "black lives matter," and an outcry that was expected for such a terrible tragedy.
Now we have the current tragedy, and all I hear is silence.
I don't hear our leaders saying anything about the racial nature of this crime, and I don't hear anybody wanting to ban the multi-colored gay flag.
I don't hear anybody saying "white lives matter," and I don't hear any of our supposed leaders from the black community coming out and making forceful comments on this situation.
Nor do I see white people, fed up with what they have witnessed, looting stores and destroying neighborhoods.
What does all this amount to?
The powder keg of racial violence that we now live in is happening under the watch of a president who knows he is going to get a bye in the history books because he is a trailblazer, and his inaction on such matters only makes many people even angrier than they already are.
His inaction on the racial aspect of this case simply pours gasoline on it, and makes this that much more combustible.
And his brethren, the very people we elect to office to represent us, do nothing, following our president, and they are just as culpable.
When is this country going to understand that all lives matter, whether you are black, white, brown, green or purple?
And we are not hearing that from the top on down, and so exists a double standard.
Where are the Sharptons, the Jacksons, and all the other race baiters on this unfortunate event?
They are sitting home, waiting for the next incident that they can hang their hats on, simply because they are getting a bye too, because we are in a period of white guilt that the PC Police created.
Sorry, I have no guilt, but those that say and do nothing, and have the power to do more, are as guilty as our president is of setting racial fires.
And sorry, folks, that is just plain wrong.
And what about the public, people like you and I?
We are just as wrong, too, because we buy into this nonsense, and don't hold these officials accountable for their actions.
Heck, if Facebook is a barometer of anything, then yesterday, the day after the latest tragedy, I saw more race baiting posts than I have ever seen against whites, posted by people who supposedly have brains in their heads.
I, personally, even questioned one poster, who had put up about three or four of these things within a short span of time. I asked her if she, a proud woman of color, had had the door slammed in her face by a white male during the day--why so many posts like this?
Silence. That is what I got. Silence.
Speak to you again on Monday.
...says the man who is ignorant of his own white privilege but wraps himself in victimhood when anti-Semitism is concerned.
ReplyDeleteWhen that kid killed nine people in a church, that was pure racism. He targeted the victims purely out of bigotry.
The TV reporter and cameraman were killed for more personal reasons. The shooter was a "professional victim" and blamed is former coworkers for his own misfortunes. Racism was the justification, not the cause.
No, racism was the cause. In his own perverted mind, he supposedly said that the two--in particular, the woman reporter--had said racist things to him. So to me, this was a hate crime too, but since the perpetrator is dead, we will never know how this would have proceeded. And white privilege? Only someone who has a tremendous amount of white guilt, like you have, would even bring something like this up ... in particular one who lives in very tony Dix Hills. Please.
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