90 Year old C-Span caller asks "Why aren’t you 'colored people' grateful?"

It has been my contention for years--and it keeps re-proving itself--that White people, since they've not been discriminated against in this country nearly to the extent of Blacks, just don't "get it".  They think the life they lead is the same life Black people lead and that their Americas are the same.  Additionally, Whites think that we've fixed everything in this country for African Americans and that we are "post-racial" and that there is no further discrimination, with all its negative effects, any longer.

I find that a great deal of White people think this, too, and they're nowhere near 90 years old, to be sure.

Finally, too many White people think that the 300 years of first slavery and then discrimination in all its manifestations, has no effect on where Blacks are now, socially, politically and/or financially.

It is frustrating, at least.  It can really be maddening.

And this from a White guy.

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God, guts and guns

In the news today , it seems "three young men walked into the New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ and opened fire, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday."

It used to be we were safe in America, without getting too hyperbolic about this.

Then you used to be safe--mostly--in your neighborhoods.

Then you were safe in your home.

Now you aren't even safe in your church.

Maybe these shooters learned this from the nutcase who went on shooting spree 5 years ago in suburban Milwaukee when the church member left the service, only to return with his 9mm handgun and unload 22 shots, killing the pastor, the pastor's son and five other members and then himself. "Neighbors said he was quiet and devout...", the story said.

Maybe they learned this tactic from this shooting from last year in March when "An Illinois pastor was shot and killed, and two parishioners injured after an unknown gunman opened fire during Sunday services at the First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill."

Or maybe they learned the technique from "pro-lifer" Scott Roeder who assassinated Dr. George Tiller, gun to his temple, in Dr. Tiller's own church in downtown Wichita, Kansas last May 31 on what was otherwise, no doubt, a beautiful Sunday morning when Dr. Tiller was volunteering, as he repeatedly did, at his own church.

Could be.

And besides the insanity of shooting someone in their own church, there is the additional craziness of the 2 victims in this most recent shooting, yesterday, of not assisting the police in their search for the shooters.

So much for law and order.

Bring on the anarchy.

So let's have it, folks, bring it on. It really has become "God, guts and guns!" in America, hasn't it?

And in our own churches.

But that's what we need--more and more guns.

Can I get an "Amen!"?

The next line of thinking?

"That's why we need to make it okay to bring our guns to church ..."

"Thank you, Ms. Davis. Now, sit down and shut up."