White Privilege is committing the largest shooting in American history and being fondly memorialized

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57. Who is fondly memorializing him??

I’m a white guy, from the south, that happens to own firearms, that happens to love real country music...frankly Jason Aldean doesn’t qualify...but I’m a dyed in the wool Democrat and was raised to be the liberal I am today. My grandparents, born in 1901 and 1912 respectively, had two pictures on their walls of political figures: FDR and MLK. FDR, because granddaddy was a sharecropper prior and during the depression. My granny cooked Sunday dinners for our family everyone they worked with and their families...our table was open to all walks of life, even when they insisted on eating outside, granny would scold them and make them sit down at our dinner table. They worked the land like we did, they were our equals, they would have a place at our table. Through FDR’s programs, granddaddy was able to transition from sharecropping to owning his own country store. He owned a total of three in his working life. The thing that separated him from others in our TN town at the time, late 40’s to mid 60’s, his store wasn’t segregated. He did that by choice and by his own personal beliefs. The local KKK showed up one night burning torches at granddaddy’s store demanding he stop serving blacks...I wasn’t there and I can’t say that it’s anything more than family legend, but granddaddy walked out on the porch, because they lived in quarters within the store, with a double barreled shotgun and called every one of the assholes out by name and shamed them into leaving his property. During the civil rights era, they supported the movement of MLK in their rural area, in no small part because their best friends Dave and Mattie, were black...it wasn’t on a grand scale but they did do their part in their part of the world. When MLK was assassinated, my grandparents hung his photo as a reminder of the ongoing struggle. They were poor country people but they knew and recognized the struggle for equal rights.

My grandparents either watched or listed to the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night...I grew up with classic country as a part of me...likewise, I spent many hours with Mr Dave and Mrs Mattie..From Mr Dave, I learned the blues: Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Aurthur Crudup, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson....and on and on...Mrs Mattie would play Motown and Staxx...

They’re both gone now, as are my grandparents. I know my upbringing is different than most in the South but to paint a broad brush and suggest “this is a white guy who liked country music and guns” and that’s why x..y...z..that’s insulting.

This guy was a reprehensible asshole...if he were a POC or a POC who happened to be Muslim, yeah...that would be blown far and wide by the media to further demonize those groups.

If my post is continuing the white privilege promotion, I’ll gladly delete it...that is surely not my intention. My point in my long ass rant is to show not all white, country music loving, gun owners are the same...