Tears filled my eyes as I watched the news accounts of the Charleston shootings. I was just sick. I wondered how one person can be so evil and full of hate that they can go out and start killing people, just because that sounds like fun. Now this tragedy has become a media circus, you have people peppering the media with their opinions, some call for gun control, others think more people need guns “to prevent these type of attacks”. I don’t know if either side knows how completely ludicrous they sound, but this has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with hate. Continue reading Coming Apart at the Seams
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Why Hate Isn’t The Answer
Being from originally from St. Louis, I have been watching the events in Ferguson carefully. I worried from the very beginning that no matter what the grand jury verdict was, violence would erupt in the streets of Ferguson. Why did I feel that way? Because the protesters in Ferguson didn’t want the truth, they wanted justice for an imagined wrong, and no matter how much evidence was presented that might justify the shooting, they would never believe that Michael Brown deserved any part of it. Continue reading Why Hate Isn’t The Answer