{"id":12505,"date":"2015-06-19T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-honestly-have-nothing-other-than-just-sadness\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:20:43","slug":"i-honestly-have-nothing-other-than-just-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-honestly-have-nothing-other-than-just-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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I honestly have nothing other than just sadness once again that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal yet we pretend doesn\u2019t exist. I\u2019m confident though, that by acknowledging it \u2013 by staring into that and seeing it for what it is\u2026We still won\u2019t do jack shit. Yeah, that\u2019s us. And that\u2019s the part that blows my mind.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to get into the political argument of guns and things. What blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves\u2026<\/p>\n

If this had been what we thought was Islamic terrorism, it would fit into our [narrative]. We invaded two countries and spent trillions of dollars and [lost] thousands of American lives and now fly unmanned death machines over like five or six different counties, all to keep Americans safe. We\u2019ve got to do whatever we can \u2013 we\u2019ll torture people. We\u2019ve got to do whatever we can to keep Americans safe. But nine people shot in a church, what about that? \u201cHey, what are you going go to do? Crazy is as crazy is, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the part that I cannot, for the life of me, wrap my head around. And you know it\u2019s gonna go down the same path. \u201cThis is a terrible tragedy.\u201d They are already using the nuanced language of lack of effort for this.<\/p>\n

This is a terrorist attack. This is a violent attack on the Emanuel Church in South Carolina which is a symbol for the black community. It has stood in that part of Charleston for a hundred and some years and has been attacked viciously many times \u2013 as many black churches have. And to pretend that \u2013 I heard someone on the news say \u2013 \u201ctragedy has visited this church\u201d. This wasn\u2019t a tornado. This was a racist. This was a guy with a Rhodesia badge on his sweater. So the idea that \u2013 I hate to even use this pun \u2013 but this one is black and white. There\u2019s no nuance here. And we\u2019re gonna keep pretending like, \u201cI don\u2019t get it, what happened. This one guy lost his mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

But we are steeped in that culture in this country and we refuse to recognize it. And I cannot believe how hard people are working to discount it. In South Carolina, the roads that people drive on are named for Confederate generals who fought to keep black people from being able to drive freely on that road. That\u2019s insanity. That\u2019s racial wallpaper. You can\u2019t allow that.<\/p>\n

Nine people were shot in a black church by a white guy who hated them \u2013 who wanted to start some kind of civil war. The Confederate flag flies over South Carolina and the roads are named for Confederate generals. And the white guy is the one who feels his country\u2019s being taken away from him. We\u2019re bringing it on ourselves.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the thing \u2013 Al Qaeda, all those guys, ISIS \u2013 they\u2019re not shit compared to the damage that we can apparently do to ourselves on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jon Stewart on the Charleston shooting | Final Boss Form<\/a>\u00a0<\/h2>\n

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