Lindsey Graham: America Has A Long Way To Go On Race Relations
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3302879/posts
Well, it was racism on the part of a drug addled lunatic.
Don’t see how it applies to “all white people” any more than the outrageous violent crime rate among blacks applies to “all black people.”
If not, then FUBC.
Well duh. Ben’s twisting words here...and revealing he is not ready for Prime Time.
No one I know about is not calling it racism. They are just saying it isn’t an indictment on white people in general like the libs want to claim. It is one punk creep loser who decided to get attention this way. I’m guessing it had more to do with his reaction to recent news events than with any racist upbringing (per a black young man who used to be his friend). Or some other event that led him down this path.
Shame on Carson for using this. He is no better than Obama for trying to squeeze political advantage out of it
Do we really want to even consider another black enabler in the WH?
Guy is an evil lunatic.
Drop him a fishing hole, filled with pirhana...
Can someone tell me what R candidate has denied there was racism involved?
Carson’s about to open up a big ol’ can of whoop-butt on his very own straw man!
Dr Carson lost me at his support of pick and choose gun control.
Yes, it was about racism - THIS KID WAS A RACIST... not every white American
why is it when muzzies murder we are told not to blame all muzzies-
but when a white kid does it, its all white peoples’ fault?
Over used and abused term, and now it means nothing so I don't
give a shit anymore about it.
I guess it was a matter of time Ben Carson used his race as a political tool.
His color gives him status to decide who is racist whether real or invented.
Common sense tells me this guy was completely and totally insane. There are a lot of insane people out their. When you are insane your motivations are irrelevant. He could have fixated on Fat People or Nuns.
He was insane. End of story. There are no broader implications other than that.
The guy wanted to go out with a bang. But he forgot to count the bullets and ran out of ammo before his attempted exit to Hell. If anything "fame" was the motivating factor for this loser. Now everyone knows his name. Everyone is talking about him. That is what he wanted and that is what he got.
Every day 9 Black people are gunned down somewhere in the United States and 90% of the time they are gunned down by black people. But there's no story there.
Ben the shooter was a mentally ill doped up youth who had liberal parents that obviously had very poor parenting skills and didn’t possess the best judgment.. I agree that Roofmay have had racism in his own personal thoughts but he does not represent the rest of what white America feels about this incident. Don’t pin this on the rest of us. If you had some of our white members attending that church on that day and heard him open his mouth and say that they would have shot the guy dead and protected the other people who just happened to have black skin in the church. We look at them as fellow brothers and sisters in the same family under God. Please don’t politcize this like The One who has tried his best to create racial division. Believe it or not white people don’t hate black people just for the sake of their skins. They don’t like people who engage in evil as a lifestyle including those of their own color.
What it was not is a characterization of a 'racist America'. It was the act of a lunatic.
Assertions of collective guilt is un-American.
The esteemed Dr. Carson is pretty far down on my list of preferred candidates but he is right about this, particularly in light of recents comments by other Republican candidates who referred to this massacre as an “attack on Christianity” or, my personal favorite, an “accident.”
Well Ben Carson just proved he can be played.
I wonder what Ben Carson thinks about the 11 black people that were shot in Detroit this past Weekend?
However, it’s not getting the same coverage as Charleston.
More black people die in shootings in Chicago, Detroit and Washington DC EVERY WEEKEND...., but all we hear is crickets from the media.
See the above incidents don’t play into the media narrative, and it’s why it’s barely to never covered.
Ben Carson just proved he falls for this divide and conqueror the people hook, line and sinker.
Dear Ben,
The problem is, individual racism is not institutional or societal racism. It is the act of a deranged individual
at least that’s what they keep telling us when muslims attack
Yes, it was racist.
Cut a black guy open. Cut a white guy open. Cut an oriental open or a Mexican. Cut any “race” open and you end up with only one race - human. All the insides are the same.
The insides might not work too well, you can have all of the above be devoids - people with no love or conscience. People that will shoot you dead or cut your throat. You can also have people that will do anything to help you or treat you with kindness.
This devoid that killed some dark skinned humans is no different inside than a bunch of devoids in Chicago, for example, who have dark colored skin who killed other people that have dark colored skin this past weekend. They have done so for many years and will continue to. Again, turn them inside out and they all look the same.
How sad it is that this fellow named Obama turned out to be as much the devoid as all the other devoids that base their actions on the color of the outside of people. Obama did not walk in to the church and shoot somebody, he did not go in to the cesspools of inner city Chicago and shoot another person. He is partially responsible for it because he has made race relations worse.
This past weekend, unlike a lot of light skinned people like myself that don’t use the “N” word he uses it freely. This tells you a lot about the guy and the main thing it tells you is that he is for racism based on skin color. He is a sick person. The irony is that he half the color of what he apparently hates. Obama seems to be mentally ill.
The bottom line is that Obama made things worse when he could have changed things for the better? Why? Because in the scheme of things he is the racist.
Carson is talking about only one aspect of this, which is the least significant, on the subject of race. Let’s consider:
1) Was the shooter motivated by his own racism - along with any other factors, such as mental illness (this is what Carson is addressing)?
2) Was the shooter’s racism created or enhanced by racist comments from various right-wing sources?
3) Is the shooter’s racism a significant indicator that racism, in general, is still a serious problem in this country?
As mentioned, the first item above is really a non-issue, since the degree to which racism, mental illness, or any other factors motivated the shooter is speculation, and only reflects upon one person.
So I hope someone straightens out Dr. Carson on this point and asks him to weigh in on the last two questions, as those are the real agendas from the left, who want to use this tragedy to manipulate the sheeple into believing that the answers are yes, to both.