Whenever we hear of a radical muslim terrorist attack, it seems that we always hear a cry from the Right, "Why don't the non-radical Muslims condemn these attacks?"
If that is a legitimate question, can we not also ask from the Right, "Why don't you condemn the radical right wing terrorist attacks on America's houses of worship?"
We just experienced the terrible attack in Charleston, but the following morning, someone shot into a Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis. Fortunately, no one was hurt. http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/06/shots_fired_into_tennessee_church.html
In recent years we have seen other shootings in religious settings like the 3 people killed in a Jewish community center in Kansas City in April, 2014, The Sihk Temple attack in Milwaukee that killed 6 and wounded 4 in August, 2012, the murder of Dr. George Tiller in his church in May, 2009, and the shooting during a children's play at the Knoxville, TN Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church which killed 2 and wounded 7 in July of 2008 by a shooter who wanted to kill "liberals and democrats".
And these are only a small sample of other attacks which have occurred since 1993. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/25-years-of-attacks-on-black-churches.html
Isn't it time for some conservative spokesperson (McConnel, Boehner, O'Reilly, Rush, ...?) to speak up and say enough is enough?
I read another story in the Washington Post tonight about the Charleston shooter. It was a rather long story that also dealt with other hate groups in the state, one of which is called the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). The article states about the CCC, Founded in 1985 by Gordon Baum, a personal-injury lawyer, the CCC had more than 1 million members at its height, including bankers, business people, judges, newspaper editors and politicians, according to the SPLC. http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...53542100c_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-national
We are told by people on the Right that racism is dead in this country, proven by the election of Barack Obama. Unfortunately, IMO, his election seems to have only brought these "closet" racists out of the woodwork en masse. We are also told by these same people that some of the racists in this country today are people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who really are nothing more than Civil Rights advocates who have fought most of their lives for what the African-Americans have today. To have them call out what they perceive as social injustices does not make them racists. They may have some other character flaws, but it doesn't make them racists.
Anyway, I just wanted to ask when, and from where, the vocal condemnation of these kinds of attacks, and the vitriolic dialogue (people like you zwick) which fuels them, might occur, with the hope of bringing a stop to this senseless and hateful slaughter.
If that is a legitimate question, can we not also ask from the Right, "Why don't you condemn the radical right wing terrorist attacks on America's houses of worship?"
We just experienced the terrible attack in Charleston, but the following morning, someone shot into a Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis. Fortunately, no one was hurt. http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/06/shots_fired_into_tennessee_church.html
In recent years we have seen other shootings in religious settings like the 3 people killed in a Jewish community center in Kansas City in April, 2014, The Sihk Temple attack in Milwaukee that killed 6 and wounded 4 in August, 2012, the murder of Dr. George Tiller in his church in May, 2009, and the shooting during a children's play at the Knoxville, TN Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church which killed 2 and wounded 7 in July of 2008 by a shooter who wanted to kill "liberals and democrats".
And these are only a small sample of other attacks which have occurred since 1993. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/25-years-of-attacks-on-black-churches.html
Isn't it time for some conservative spokesperson (McConnel, Boehner, O'Reilly, Rush, ...?) to speak up and say enough is enough?
I read another story in the Washington Post tonight about the Charleston shooter. It was a rather long story that also dealt with other hate groups in the state, one of which is called the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). The article states about the CCC, Founded in 1985 by Gordon Baum, a personal-injury lawyer, the CCC had more than 1 million members at its height, including bankers, business people, judges, newspaper editors and politicians, according to the SPLC. http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...53542100c_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-national
We are told by people on the Right that racism is dead in this country, proven by the election of Barack Obama. Unfortunately, IMO, his election seems to have only brought these "closet" racists out of the woodwork en masse. We are also told by these same people that some of the racists in this country today are people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who really are nothing more than Civil Rights advocates who have fought most of their lives for what the African-Americans have today. To have them call out what they perceive as social injustices does not make them racists. They may have some other character flaws, but it doesn't make them racists.
Anyway, I just wanted to ask when, and from where, the vocal condemnation of these kinds of attacks, and the vitriolic dialogue (people like you zwick) which fuels them, might occur, with the hope of bringing a stop to this senseless and hateful slaughter.
