Will It Ever Stop

It seems as if racism has gone up at an exponential rate since the office of President of the United States was assumed by a black man.

Here is the latest, from Tulsa, OK.

Two reports.  MSNBC says:

Three men and one woman were shot within a mile of each other in north Tulsa at around 1 a.m. on Friday morning, police said. The body of a fifth victim, a man, was discovered outside a nearby funeral home in the predominantly black part of the city after 8 a.m. on Friday. Police said he was likely shot at about the same time as the others.

While The Blaze reports:

Police believe the same attacker or attackers are behind a series of early-morning shootings in which three people were killed and two others were critically wounded within a three-mile span of north Tulsa.

Homicide detective Sgt. Dave Walker said investigators don’t have the results of forensic tests yet, but police think the early Friday morning shootings are linked because they happened around the same time in the same general area and all five victims were out walking when they were shot.

My feelings are that the targeting of blacks by whites, singly or in groups, will get worse between now and November.

Some Things

never change.

I have just finished “The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War” by Andrew Roberts.  This is a different type of history that speaks of army units, political leaders, 3 & 4 star officers or their equivalents.  The book is mostly about the war by the Allies against the Nazis.  But this is not a book review.  It was published in 2011 and if I may have piqued your interest,  it is probably available in your library.

I want to point out one fact the author mentions late in the book.  He speaks about April 1945, leading up to and the fall of Berlin.

Racism

I am still having difficulty on how to “handle” or how to report this story. One lesson is that things may not be as they appear. Read this and then come back. I’ll wait.

Not everyone that identifies as an African-American has dark skin and expressive lips. Some folks have freckles, thin lips and a hook nose.

Personally, I identify more with Barak Obama’s world view than I do with George Bush’s.

And “No!” I will not reveal my ethnic origins. It is none of your business and it should not make a damn bit of difference.