About The Flag On Dylann Roof's Jacket
Category: POLITICS
What is around us that would tacitly or implicitly give permission to someone to pick up a gun and kill nine people? All the signs, all the permission he ever needed was in a flag, in a sentence, in a supposedly harmless joke, in the privacy of a car, in a home late at night, in a status update. All of it, was always just there.
By Iain S. Thomas, ContributorSouth African poet, creator of I Wrote This For You, 2015-06-21