It's been 7 days since nine African-American church worshippers were gunned down after having shared prayer with the alleged gunman, 21 year-old Dylann Roof. As predicted, the media has fully disappointed. First, they couldn't stop calling this alleged enemy of the state a "Kid." Really? Trayvon Benjamin Martin was never known as a kid, though he was a mere 17-years old when renegade neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman took his life. Zimmerman would later be freed by a jury of his peers, only to be arrested 7 more times for assault crimes. I heard a TV expert dissecting Roof's background that would be appalling to most, and he couldn't help call him a kid. The adjective denotes innocence. Many whites in America want to find out what demon took this child's innocence that would cause him to do such dastardly things. Black America wants justice for the crimes.
The night before Roof's arrest I found myself in a Twitter debate with Nick Searcy who plays Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Art Mullen endearingly one of my favorite shows, FX's Justified. Nick was quick to call out the liberal media, and me, for jumping to conclusions about who the shooter might be, and labeling him a criminal terrorist before his capture. I debated him for hours about how unfair his liberal whining's were.
I was so bold as to Tweet CNN's Jake Taper, and ask him how he would characterize the alleged shooter on his afternoon show. Taper was gracious enough to respond, saying he wouldn't ever use the word thug, but somewhat tepidly agreed with me that it was an act of terrorism at best. I was happy to see his newscast when he didn't mince words to describe the shooter, though he stopped short of calling him a terrorist.
As many African-American's know for sure, there will be no justice in this America even for 9 innocent, church-going folk in Charleston, South Carolina. Our community will carry on as we always have, and deal with the pain and hurt after so many hundreds of years of cruelty and inhuman suffering at the hands of American brothers and sisters. There are no martyrs amongst us, we are rather a remarkable people of enduring faith in God and strength. We will survive and be the last ones standing in the end. God bless America, and the children who made her so great. Good night Moon, Good night black people, Good night America.
The night before Roof's arrest I found myself in a Twitter debate with Nick Searcy who plays Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Art Mullen endearingly one of my favorite shows, FX's Justified. Nick was quick to call out the liberal media, and me, for jumping to conclusions about who the shooter might be, and labeling him a criminal terrorist before his capture. I debated him for hours about how unfair his liberal whining's were.
I was so bold as to Tweet CNN's Jake Taper, and ask him how he would characterize the alleged shooter on his afternoon show. Taper was gracious enough to respond, saying he wouldn't ever use the word thug, but somewhat tepidly agreed with me that it was an act of terrorism at best. I was happy to see his newscast when he didn't mince words to describe the shooter, though he stopped short of calling him a terrorist.
As many African-American's know for sure, there will be no justice in this America even for 9 innocent, church-going folk in Charleston, South Carolina. Our community will carry on as we always have, and deal with the pain and hurt after so many hundreds of years of cruelty and inhuman suffering at the hands of American brothers and sisters. There are no martyrs amongst us, we are rather a remarkable people of enduring faith in God and strength. We will survive and be the last ones standing in the end. God bless America, and the children who made her so great. Good night Moon, Good night black people, Good night America.
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