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I called Graham’s office and told the staffer that it was unconscionable that the Senator didn’t call this massacre an act of domestic terrorism, especially when he’s so eager to label so many brown people that way. I said that I knew the reason he didn’t was because the shooter was white and the victims black.
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This is the intersection of bigotry and gun fetishism in America.
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“Just not heartbroken enough to do anything about it.”
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I don’t think it’s anything broader than that. … It’s about a young man who is obviously twisted.
Yet, Missy Graham thinks that All Iranian are liars because he knew a few while growing up.
obviously twisted
Bit late for an expression of sorrow from that state’s senior Senator and a trans-racial expression at that.
It’s not enough to mourn
And not enough to pray.
Sackcloth and ashes, anyhow,
Save for another day.
The Lord God Himself
Would hardly desire
That men be burned to death–
And bless the fire.
–Langston Hughes, Bombings In Dixie, The Panther and the Lash, 1967
Graham is the guy who advocates for ongoing war forever. For him war is a movie, or cops 'n robbers games. This shooting is not unlike what happens EVERY DAY in Iraq and Syria. And it’s no game.
I don’t know…maybe I’m just a bit too cynical today.
BUT…
Not heartbroken enough to tighten the gun laws!
You’ve heard of “chicken in every pot”, with this crowd it’s “a gun in every nuts hands”.
Graham went home to South Carolina, at whose capital both the US and South Carolina state flag fly at half mast, but (on a separate flagpole) the Confederate flag —a symbol of white supremacy— flaps at the very top of its flagpole.
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