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[J. Beckert]

(08-14-2015 05:47 PM)MaddieM Wrote:  So long as people place the onus on a thing, rather than a person, as a means to explain/excuse all that is wrong with this world, we have no chance of changing it. As though banning a flag will make is all better? Could it be that those who shout loudest about the evil of this flag and what it represents are afraid to face up to the fact that evil does, has and always will walk among us? Society is broken in so many ways. We have to exercise personal responsibility as human beings and how we treat each other. We read so many bad things in the media, every day I read the news and often cry over what we do to each other and yet, I still believe that the majority of people are good souls.

Excellent points, Maddie. Like I'd mentioned earlier, without the media fanning the flames of "rasicm", six months the ago no one would have batted an eye about that flag. If that lunatic that killed those poor souls that had invited him to worship with them had been photographed holding a glazed doughnut, there'd be a movement to ban them.

The kindness those people extended to that man shows a love that those who think they're making strides by screaming rasicm know nothing about.

It's a disgrace to their memory that the biggest thing that came out of their deaths is banning a flag.