it is a kind of national insanity.
ken
It is not calling the shooting terrorism that matters in my opinion. What needs to be done is compel the hate group to put down their guns.The easy access to gun in the US is the cause of the senseless killings which Obama administration finds difficult to control.A time is coming when majority of Americans will say they have had enough of the law that permits easy access to gun.
Prof. Segun Ogungbemi--to call this an act of terrorism is not to acknowledge more truthfully its import, but to buy into the increasingly ubiquitous rhetoric of "terrorism," a term used everywhere to signify an enemy of a regime. it is a heinous crime, a mass murder by a white supremicist bigot who deserves to be punished to the limit. we could go on forever saying how awful his act was, how horrible that nutcases like him can get killing machines to kill as many innocent people as possible, and we'd never really end it.
time to mourn now, and to direct our anger at those whose verbiage helps make these acts seem possible, and who political policies make it easier for crazy people to kill innocent victims. i agree with obama; something should be done to curb the easy access to guns in this country, and more needs to be done to marginalize white supremicists and their rhetoric.
ken
On 6/19/15 6:01 PM, Dhikru Yagboyaju wrote:
That has always been the problem.
On 19 Jun 2015 16:10, "Toyin Falola" <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:--
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Many Ask, Why Not Call Church Shooting Terrorism?
By RICK GLADSTONEJune 18, 2015
The massacre of nine African-Americans in Charleston has been classified as a possible hate crime, apparently carried out by a 21-year-old white man who once wore an apartheid badge and other symbols of white supremacy. But many civil rights advocates are asking why the attack has not officially been called terrorism.
Against the backdrop of rising worries about violent Muslim extremism in the United States, advocates see hypocrisy in the way the attack and the man under arrest in the shooting have been described by law enforcement officials and the news media.
Assaults like the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 and the attack on an anti-Islamic gathering in Garland, Tex., last month have been widely portrayed as acts of terrorism carried out by Islamic extremists. Critics say, however, that assaults against African-Americans and Muslim Americans are rarely if ever called terrorism.
Moreover, they argue, assailants who are white are far less likely to be described by the authorities as terrorists.
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