Fields, the pathetic loser who drove his car into the crowd in Charlottesville, was a guy who needed help from a young age. His dad died in a car wreck b4 he was born & mother was wheelchair-bound. By indications from former teachers, he was an intelligent kid. He was a kid trying to cope w/tremendous stresses from a young age. He told one of his teachers that he'd been on psychotropic meds earlier in his life. Police were called to his home more than once for his abuse of his wheelchair-bound mother--once lashing out at her because she scolded him for (wait for it)...."playing video games so much". None of this excuses what he did. My point is, he was a troubled, psychologically unbalanced kid for a long time before this past weekend.
It's young men like him who the White Supremacists court. Ripe for the picking. Easy marks. Easily manipulated. Easily enraged, because they are already angry at the hand life's dealt them. These "men" show them the attention they so desperately crave & the brainwashing begins. To fight the scourge of White Supremacy, we must identify & help youth like him to cope w/the very difficult situations in which they are immersed. You might be surprised how many of these young men are out there. Our society is sorely lacking in good, male role models, so kids often end up w/bad male role models, or none at all--leaving them to depend on media as a back up--think movies, TV, & video games. These kids feel powerless & see the big, bad-ass, Nazis as attractive powerful gods, whom they wish to emulate, as that is the opposite of the loathsomeness they feel is their life.
If you know a boy in need of guidance, please connect w/them b4 the White Supremacists recruit them. It may be our best avenue in stopping the spread of this sickness in the nation.
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