Another unspeakable tragedy. Will there be any significant, fundamental changes?

[Solly Mack]

13. No

We'll hear how the white man with the confederate flag, the apartheid patches, and the racists jokes just fell from the sky and is in no way connected to the dominant culture that produces racist cops, that disproportionately arrests and imprisons people along racial lines, where existing while black can be a death sentence, where a racist history is called heritage and is defended vigorously. Where white people who commit hate crimes are lone wolfs in need of help and understanding, and not a domestic terrorist whose warped ideas are fed constantly by the racism that exist throughout America. Because, you know, there was just no way that Roof took any cues from society as a whole. None. Nope. His racism was entirely the fault of his upbringing. He never saw or heard acceptance of his racism from anywhere else - not even while telling racist jokes to his friends. Why, they all shouted him down and told him how wrong he was! You bet they did! (snort)



We'll hear the usual fear-mongering of "they want to take our guns". So, those who can hear nothing else but that will go on the defensive and be ever more entrenched in their completely ignorant belief that the government is going to take their guns from them.

Certain politicians will, of course, reinforce this, as it plays to their advantage. Playing to their base, and all that.

And, once again, the chance to actually do something will be lost in all the bullshit.