A reply to Dylann Roof

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By Richard Warren

“I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country.” Like all racist rants, this can be picked apart with facts and logic. But a troubled 21-year-old white man, Dylann Roof, found it easier to blame people with darker skin than to do the hard work of putting his life together.

Racist thinking holds an entire group to blame for their worst people. White rapists and murderers are treated as exceptions. The white race is not blamed for polluting the environment, wrongly starting wars, stealing land, committing genocide or underpaying workers.

As for “taking over our country,” considering that most wealth, most businesses, most public offices, most jobs and most police positions are still held by whites, blacks have a long way to go.

But apparently the fact that black people are not willing to be forever oppressed and are demanding equal treatment is too much for Roof to endure. We hear complaints about affirmative action. They ignore the un-official affirmative action program that has always existed to benefit white men. Without affirmative action, even positions such as bank teller would be an exclusively white occupation.

Opposition to gun control has been brought up as a contributing factor in Roof’s murder of nine black churchgoers. President Barack Obama has rightly stated that these tragedies don’t happen as often in other advanced countries.

Gun control is not a total cure since murder was around long before the invention of the gun. Also, gun laws are often unfairly enforced. But reasonable gun control laws would make it illegal for a father to give his mentally ill son a gun for his 21st birthday. Without his weapon, an outnumbered Roof probably could not have murdered nine people.

Roof’s churchgoing victims knew that since biblical times, pride has been one of the seven deadly sins. 

 

Proud people often contribute to their own oppression. So you’re more concerned with putting yourself above fellow workers with darker skin. Then you wonder why your bosses have such an easy time keeping workers divided and paying you a poverty wage.

Dylann Roof, racism, Barack Obama, Gun control
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