‘America’ — A Nation of Hate
“And did not comply with simple commands”
That is terrifying.
Man, every time I reblog stories like this I think, “Maybe this one is finally the turning point for gun violence and racism in America” and it just… never is.
There is something seriously wrong in this country. No, it isn’t only Donald Trump, though he is a sign, a manifestation of the disease that is destroying this nation. No, the disease isn’t the coronavirus, though perhaps it has brought the other, deeper disease into the public arena. The disease is … what? It has many names, but they all point to one thing just as the saying goes that “all roads lead to Rome”. And that one thing is blind hatred.
I’ve posted twice in the past week about the two white men who brutally murdered a young black man guilty only of being outdoors jogging. The men, father and son, chased him down in their pickup truck and shot him to death.
The murder went unannounced for more than two months, then finally once it became public knowledge, the hue and cry was such that the two were arrested. Most of us, I hope, were appalled by what happened to Ahmaud Arbery and hope the two killers will spend the rest of their lives paying for their actions. However, there is a group that is growing in numbers, who seem to see the killers as ‘heroes’, want to put them on a pedestal and give them kudos.
It began when a group previously called “Christians Against Google” changed their name to “Justice for Gregory and Travis Michael”, the two killers. In the “About” section of their Facebook page, they claim …
“These 2 God-fearing men were only trying to protect their neighborhood. This area has had a string of break-ins and this man fit the description and did not comply with simple commands. Our hearts go out to the McMichael family in their time of need. Amen.”
By “fit the description”, they mean that he was black. If that doesn’t make your blood boil, then I don’t know what will. Worse yet … you may think this group is comprised of only a few “good ol’ boys”, southern whites who haven’t yet realized that this is the 21st century and that skin colour is not a basis for judgment or discrimination. But the fact is that at last count, there were reportedly some 104,000 people signed on for this hateful group.
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