GUN ISSUES?
I'm a strong advocate of getting rid of assault weapons and increasing the intensity of background checks when it comes to purchasing a firearm.....BUT seriously the MAIN issue at the core of this horrible event goes so far beyond gun control that I'm rather startled.
THIS INCIDENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GUNS!
It's like saying that in 1957 when a black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi that ROPE and TREES should be eliminated and controlled.
The scary part of this is that the asshole might have been motivated and pushed to action by the numerous police vs black incidents over the last six months....but rest assured that his racism isn't a newly discovered personality trait.
AND WHAT IS EVEN SCARIER IS THAT SOMEHOW THIS IS A TANGENT OF HOW A RACIEST PERSON RESPONDS TO HAVING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT A BLACK MAN IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
I have no idea what would motivate a person to walk into a church, sit down and talk to people for an hour and then kill them. Of course I don't have the gene which dictates I could kill someone unless it was unavoidable to protect my daughter.
MOTIVATION is the key word while trying to understand the chaos taking place inside one's mind.
I'm going to be very surprised if the asshole's parents worked on either of the two Obama campaigns. Pretty sure there weren't HOPE signs on their front lawn in 2008 or 2012.
The issue of racism is by far away the main issue involved in this incident and maybe the main sociological issue facing our country. So many of us thought it was a issue that seemed to be disappearing.....of course that's easy for my Scottish, Irish and German white ass to say.
It would be rather ironic that when Barry leaves office in January of 2017 that suddenly everything started to clam down regarding violent racial confrontations.
Each one of us has to examine our personal prejudices and we need to do the examination on a regular basis.
When doing the exam it's important to subject both your family and educational stimulus to a thorough form of scrutiny. From jokes to stories one must realize the undercurrent of how racism takes shape.
EXAMPLE
From a personal moment in my youth.
When I was in the second or third grade I had a nun( Sister Mary Margaret) tell me "that if I received communion with a sin I committed, and didn't confess, then as I was walking back to my seat my skin could turn BLACK."
ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY!
Once I finally realized that the nuns were batsh*t crazy I was able to let that nonsense fly into the neverland of HUH??? and not let it affect me (maybe). Of course I think I was 16 when that awareness took priority and my social viewpoints started taking a personal direction.
I was very lucky to meet a friend around that time whose entire family of 9 had been raised Catholic but didn't seem to be affected by the irrational silliness of their educational upbringing....and whose parents were sensible, reasonable and loving people.
Of course I have no idea if they were those type of people really, but since my friend is the smartest most eloquent liberal I have ever known, I must assume that it was their parenting.
He will probably say it was ALL HIM.....which might be true.
The point I'm making here is that when someone does what this asshole did in Charleston then I would think there's a BIG chance that the asshole's family has to take some of the blame........HOW MUCH OF THE BLAME IS THE MAGIC QUESTION?
ENOUGH WHERE THEY SHOULD BE HELD FOR QUESTIONING?
I THINK SO......MAYBE NOT CHARGED WITH A CRIME BUT AT THE VERY LEAST QUESTIONED ON THEIR VIEWPOINTS REGARDING RACE RELATIONS.
Is that over the top?
IT SURE AIN'T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING OVER THE TOP COMPARED TO WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT HISTORIC SOUTHERN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH.
And once again I'll say......
THAT MOMENT IN TIME WHEN HE CHOSE TO END 9 PEOPLES' LIVES.....HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH
GUNS.
HATE IS HATE AND TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE DO NOT ENTER THE PICTURE WHEN SOMEONE HATES SOMEONE
BECAUSE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT COLOR SKIN
TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE
NEED TO PLAY A MUCH LARGER ROLE IN OUR SOCIETY
COULD I BE ANY CLEARER?
Michael Timothy McAlevey
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