Posted on 06/20/2015 5:02:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
The mass murder of nine innocent black Americans attending a Bible study in a Charleston church by a drug-addled, racist, terrorist thug was as close to universally condemned as anything can be in a country like America. Expressions of sorrow over what happened and loathing for the killer are everywhere. Moreover, the shooter was quickly apprehended and the governor of South Carolina has already called for the death penalty. Hopefully, she’ll get her wish.
Supposedly, the shooter had the same lunatic dream as Charles Manson did back in 1969: he was hoping to start a race war.
That won’t work any better today than it did back in the sixties.
However, what this evil piece of human debris did manage to do is sow a little more hatred and division between Americans. There are already enough people doing that.
We always have ghouls who gleefully try to exploit every tragedy for their own political ends and there are more of them than ever before. They’re trying to tie this into their campaigns against police, trying to whip up voter registration, trying to convince black Americans that white people in general and conservative whites in particular hate their guts.
It would be nice to just shrug that off, but it has become so easy for people to talk past each other in today’s social-media-driven environment where every molehill is blown up and repeated and intensified until it’s made to look like a mountain. So, I want to try to cut through the clutter.
I think of myself as a typical white Tea Party conservative. I’m pro-cop, tough on crime, anti-Affirmative Action and I can’t stand Obama. In fact, if you put pretty much any black liberal (or for that matter, any liberal) and me in a room, we probably wouldn’t agree on ANYTHING political.
There are liberals who will tell you all day long that people like me are racist, that we hate black Americans and we secretly send “dog whistles” to each other about it all day long. If you believe them, you’d think people like me don’t care about black Americans at best and want to see them suffer at worst.
Now, here’s the truth about me and people like me.
I support the policies I do because I think they’re good for all Americans, including black Americans.
I think tough policing benefits black Americans more than anyone because they’re most likely to be the victims of crime. I think Affirmative Action undercuts the accomplishments of deserving black Americans by making people wonder if they earned their achievements. I think Obama has been a disaster not just for America as a whole, but for black Americans in particular. Given the fact that liberal policies have been failing black Americans for fifty years, I think I can make a good case for what I’m saying.
Of course, if you look at it a different way, I understand that, but since I can give you a coherent, intellectual explanation for why I think the way I do, you should at least give me the benefit of the doubt when I tell you I don’t hate you.
The words “racism” and “bigotry” get tossed around so quickly and easily these days that they’ve lost a lot of their meaning. So, rather than talking about those words, let me just say this: I don’t think anyone is inferior because of his skin color. I think black Americans are just capable as white Americans. In fact, I think people should be judged by merit and the content of their character, not skin color. People are just people.
So, we may disagree. In fact, if you’re a black Democrat, we probably disagree on a lot of things. But, I want you to know that people like me don’t hate you. We may oppose you and we may support policies you don’t like, but it’s not out of hatred. It’s because we love our country and because we want as many Americans as possible to be successful and have good lives. Disagree with us all day long, but no matter what anyone tells you, we don’t hate you.
Ditto.
Democrats have broken up the family by giving mothers lots of Bennies IF there is no husband in the house, so therefore ladies....you VOTE for this crap!
Democrats have seen to it that the public schools in the inner city are manned by UNION IDIOTS who only care about their vacation and pension and job for life!!
Democrats have ruined every big city....have run them into the ground.....go ahead, name one city that really works and isn't bankrupt.
If Blacks EVER wake up out of their STUPOR and realize just why they are in the mess they are in, there will be blood in every street.
Very well said, and it will only change when they wake up not before.
Except for guns, there does not seem to be as much outrage among the Bolshies, since, it was Black Republicans that were shot by a skinhead wannabe. Which, the lefties try to associate with Republicans.
DEMOCRATS created “the hood.” They have kept blacks as a subservient class of people in return for votes. Blacks need to wake up to the fact they’ve been the pawns of the liberal democrats. Blacks who have achieved, and there are many highly respected, are those who didn’t buy into the Democrats’ “poor me I’m black” culture.
The shooter only happened to have white skin amd was a deeply disturbed young man hopped up on psychotropic drugs. There are no white people cheering this man on. We despise what did just as much as other black people do. It is very sad that he took the lives of people that were good Christian people who welcomed into their church and even prayed with him. We do not condone this. We want him punished every bit as much as you do. Taking away the right to bear arms will not fix this. A deranged and psychotic person like this would have procured a weapon anyway that he could have even if he had to buy it on the street or used another weapon of choice. In our church as soon as the young man would have spoken up we would have turned around and drawn our weapons and would have defended our flock and most likely saved those 9 people. We do not live in safe times. We need to he able to defend ourselves against criminals who will always have guns.
It is a sad day in America when people commit senseless acts like this because they are broken.
So where is the outrage from the Negro population when a Negro slaughters a group of whites?
—...the governor of South Carolina has already called for the death penalty. Hopefully, she’ll get her wish.—
I am not criticizing Nikki Haley. She’s top shelf in my book - I wish she was my governor.
But shouldn’t at least honorable mention go to those who allowed those drugs to be prescribed and consumed? Parents, physicians, chemists, the FDA, and big pharma all had a part in it one way or the other, did they not?
Maybe some will accuse me of tin-foil hat talk, but it’s well-known the Christian persecution in America is in its beginning stages. I don’t hear much that this man was on the edge to begin with and used to target Christians.
I know that even if Governor Haley suspected that (and I’m not saying she does) she can’t say it. Not without hard evidence anyway.
Every single problem issue in America can be traced directly to Liberals/Democrats.
Anyone can name one that is not? Let’s hear it.
Just one. I’ll wait.
>>it was Black Republicans that were shot by a skinhead wannabe.
How do you know that they were Republicans?
Let’s see your evidence of a causal relationship.
Remember, correlation does not imply causation.
What makes you think they were Republicans?
(fingers crossed) So far, Cleveland. Mayor Jackson has done a good job bringing revenue enhancing initiatives to the city. There's now an attitude that local problems should be solved locally and there's low tolerance for agitating which scares people away from Cleveland.
Yes it is relentless.
Over four hundred innocent whites were murdered by black perps in 2014. Where’s the outcry from the media about that?
I am a white conservative and I do not hate black people. I do hate thugs and criminals no matter what their color or ethnicity!
One of the victims was a Dim senator.
The victims’ families say they “forgive” him. They’re only *saying* that. I’m quite certain that they’re with the race-baiters, liberals, BlackPanthers, Louis Farrakhan, &c. on this.
Most Negroes have bought Liberation Doctrine, black supremacy (and all that it entails) hook, line, and sinker.
IOW, they have their own problems. Neither party is fully innocent.
As for the incredibly stupid gunman: I’ve got a new rope, courtesy of Colorado pot addicts. All tied up and ready to hang someone.
(This post may self-destruct at any time. Good luck, Jim. /MI)
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