So after feeling so concerned about the well-being of the victims and their families, and after wanting to be proud of America and all that it stands for, I am reminded of why I haven't felt this very often before. Americans of all sorts of ethnicities and backgrounds have become targets of racist comments and physical violence over the past 48 hours simply because people want an easy outlet for their frustration at having no idea who to blame for what happened. Closet racists are jumping at the opportunity to fill their comfortable roles as oppressors and adopt a mindless mob mentality. Unwitting victims become martyrs for a cause they might never have championed, just as religion justified the Crusades, The Colonization of the Americas, the Inquisition, and all the Jihads in the world. We read about the Japanese Internment camps in WWII and wonder how backward we were back then, but even now there is plenty of evidence of how little progress we have made.
People are people and evil is evil.
Harming the innocent, regardless of who you are, is evil, and evil knows no boundaries so far as political lines separating countries, skin color, or heritage. Many people in America are not evil, but there are plenty, and that can be said for all humanity, on a person by person basis. But for me, there was literally a chunk of rock stuck in my knee and that explains why my 3rd kneecap kept flaring up and getting pussy. I love to spell, but that doesn't mean I'm very good at it. I should probably clean that up before Dave gets home.