"Terrorist" - What's in a word.

[qwlauren35]

All day today, I have wondered why I couldn't call Dylann Roof a terrorist. I finally figured it out. If I call Roof a terrorist, then I have to admit that the US has a problem with terrorists inside of its boundaries. And if I have to admit that, I have to admit that no one is really safe.

That's hard.

Now, because this act of terror was racially motivated, it might be fair to say that no one black is safe from terrorism. Now, I dealt with the police brutality issue. And that black people aren't safe from police. But to have to look over your shoulder, because at any time, some deranged racist idiot could decide to kill you... because that's what living with terrorism means.

I don't like it, and I want something done about it. I want a task force, I want Homeland Security, I want the Patriot Act... flush out these terrorists who want to kill black people. Identify those who are sympathetic. And have a zero tolerance policy.

That's how you deal with terrorism.

[yurbud]

1. this kind of terrorism has killed far more Americans than any foreign group

And if you include the civil war, racist terrorists have killed even more WHITE Americans than any of our foreign enemies.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

2. If you start from 1492,

and include the natives exterminated here and the high casualty rates of chained Africans on slave ships coming across the Atlantic, the figure is tens of millions of human beings, imo.

Even today, so many lives lost to white terrorism/police oppression and yet Bill Maher wants to talk about how we should be profiling Arabs? This country is insane. We need to start from the ground up and change everything. Our children in school finally need to hear the truth about what has been going on for the last 500 years. I don't know what the answer is, but getting some truth in the schools might be a start.