Another mass shooting by a white man with an arsenal of automatic weapons. And the media are falling all over themselves to report how "shocked" his family is, and how quiet and normal he was. Another law-abiding white citizen, who checked into a hotel with 23 firearms.
I can't help but compare this to the way the media scramble to dig up dirt about young black men who are killed or maimed by law enforcement...any excuse to label them criminals or "thugs." Failing that, there's the fall-back position: "THEY should have (surrendered, fallen down on their knees with hands up, complied with officers' frantically screamed instructions...)
For the fifty+ dead at the hands of a "nice" white terrorist in Las Vegas last night; for 26 at Sandy Hook; for Trayvon, and Tamir; for countless others mass murdered with weapons of war in the hands of "quiet" white men...or killed, maimed or abused by authorities because of the color of their skin; for the society that has allowed such carnage and injustice...
Take a knee.
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