{"id":60563,"date":"2015-06-25T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60563"},"modified":"2015-06-25T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T12:47:10","slug":"the-terrorist-has-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60563","title":{"rendered":"The terrorist has won"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Dylann Roof murdered nine peaceful American citizens who were attending their Bible studies group. His stated intent was to start a race war and, behold, he has thus far been successful. Look at the news today – because this little cretin was holding a Confederate flag in some of his social media photographs, there is a movement to remove the Confederate flag from our national memory, from state houses, from toys. While the military denies<\/a> that they will rename bases named after Confederate generals, the Stars & Stripes was still able to bring it into the national discussion.<\/p>\n

The misnamed “Liberals” at The Nation claim that “The Greatest Threats to American National Security Are Guns and the Police<\/a>” that, armed White Americans are a bigger threat to this country than the adherents of ISIS who are being rounded up nearly every day in this country.<\/p>\n

It’s no longer about the actions of that little piece of shit in that church basement last week, it’s about all of us. The lesson of the Civil War is completely lost on the American conscience – that lesson being that half of the country went to war with the other half to correct a social injustice. That White people died by the hundreds of thousands to rescue Black Americans from a bad system. If every Black slave had revolted, they would not have been successful turning around the injustice of slavery without the support of roughly half of the White population.<\/p>\n

There have always been bad White people, there have always been bad Black people, but there are many more good people of all races to correct the situations the bad people create. I’m not willing to accept that I’m as bad as Dylann Roof just because we happen to be similarly pigmented. I’m also not willing to admit that I am a racist because an unknown number of individuals who look a little like me happen to be racist.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Kristof writes in the New York Times that “Tearing Down the Confederate Flag Is Just a Start<\/a>” and he blames White America for the economic condition of Black Americans. The Black people that I know would take exception with Mr. Kristof. I know Black Americans who have worked their whole lives to overcome the stigma that Liberal White Americans have placed on their burden. <\/p>\n

In short, Dylann Roof has been quite successful in his endeavor to create friction between the differently pigmented. It’s up to the grownups to determine whether the superficial differences between us are reason enough to escalate that which Dylann Roof started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Dylann Roof murdered nine peaceful American citizens who were attending their Bible studies group. … The terrorist has won<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}