If any reader rejected my frequent, earlier contentions, namely,
that we've been entering into a new Dark Age, seeing evil events
many of us had hoped were safely cast onto the dustbin of
history--you were resoundingly proven wrong yesterday:
Remember the four little girls killed in a southern state's church
years ago? A hauntingly similar scenario occurred Wednesday,
June 17th, when a young white lunatic entered a church in South
Carolina, fired his gun, killing nine people. (It's as if he read
American History and decided to recreate the horror, going
one better.) There is a clear photo of him, as yet unidentified.
When I add all the retrenchment from humane and sane
policies enacted in the twentieth century together, the
appalling, terrifying conclusion is inescapable--we have,
bit by bit, returned to bad old days. But this disastrous trend
is in its infancy, so we still have time to unite, gird ourselves
for the fight. --So let's fight! Let's organize, not as Occupy
did by having a giant, messy party, without any sustained,
legislative follow-through; instead, let's get serious.
Isn't it high time?
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UPDATE: Per CBS Radio, 21 year old Dylan Roof, the
alleged perpetrator has been caught, found in North Carolina
by Debbie Dills, a woman driving near him who took down
his license plate number, then called 911. Our nation owes her
our admiration and gratitude for her quick thinking, her
public-spirited actions.
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I totally agree.
ReplyDeleteI do feel we are in prophetic times.
It I fear will get worse rapidly.
Yes, it's hard to forget that horrendous event in 1963; the fire-bombing of the Fourth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which robbed four young black girls of their lives. (The last of the perpetrators died just a few years ago).
ReplyDeleteAs heartbreaking as last week's tragedy was, I still believe that it was an aberration as opposed to the start of a new trend.
I doubt that Dylann Storm Roof, despite his intense hatred, harbored any sense of history at all. He was an aimless high school dropout who claims to have been influenced by a white-supremacy-themed website --- as it it provided him with an epiphany! (Very doubtful. Still I find it puzzling that 25% of his 80 Facebook friends were young African-American men his age).
Don't get me wrong; racism still reigns, and not just in the South. I'm not suggesting that there won't be more displays of such viciousness in our future; I'm sure there will be. But such crimes aren't nearly as likely to go unpunished as they did through the 1960s.
But despite the change in racial attitudes --- as slow as it's been ---- there's another issue that's being conveniently ignored: the easy availability of guns. "Leaky" Roof purchased his .45 over the counter. No questions asked!
Yes, it's hard to forget that horrendous event in 1963; the fire-bombing of the Fourth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which robbed four young black girls of their lives. (The last of the perpetrators died just a few years ago).
ReplyDeleteAs heartbreaking as last week's tragedy was, I still believe that it was an aberration as opposed to the start of a new trend.
I doubt that Dylann Storm Roof, despite his intense hatred, harbored any sense of history at all. He was an aimless high school dropout who claims to have been influenced by a white-supremacy-themed website --- as it it provided him with an epiphany! (Very doubtful. Still I find it puzzling that 25% of his 80 Facebook friends were young African-American men his age).
Don't get me wrong; racism still reigns, and not just in the South. I'm not suggesting that there won't be more displays of such viciousness in our future; I'm sure there will be. But such crimes aren't nearly as likely to go unpunished as they did through the 1960s.
But despite the change in racial attitudes --- as slow as it's been ---- there's another issue that's being conveniently ignored: the easy availability of guns. "Leaky" Roof purchased his .45 over the counter. No questions asked!
Dan. I often wonder.If a national tv host were to interview an average man or woman, or possibly some big celebrity but with their permission gave them sodium penatol before the interview what would we discover is truly in their heart? Same question regarding, our co workers, neighbors, fellow church members, etc.
ReplyDeleteMaybe what is deep in many peoples spirit has not changed as much as it should or as we believed.