bombed in Boston?
I find it interesting to hear/see people (coloreds ones specifically) express sympathy, empathy, anger, etc.....on behalf of the victims of things like this (people they have never met) but never express those same feelings (or never express them as strongly) when similiar things happen to people (colored ones specifically) around the globe.
So why is this? Why do you feel such a connection with these particular people and not others?
Good question. I was listening to the radio on Monday, when they broke in with the news. I was dismayed, of course. The next day, I thought to myself that some time in the last week or so 55 some people were killed in Iraq in a bombing, and I really hadnt thought about it, or cared until the bombing in Boston. I guess the short answer to why we should care is that its on our home soil, and it couldve been any of us. The truth of the matter is terrorists dont care about color, ethnicity, or nationality; were all just collateral damage to them. Timothy McVeigh was a racist, but when he bombed the Oklahoma City fed building, he didnt care how many white people would be killed in the bombing, and all he cared about was destroying the fed building. With the Times Square attempted bombing, the person who attempted it was a Pakistani I believe, he didnt care about whether or not any Muslims would be killed by his bomb. As a matter of fact, it was a Muslim who owned a food cart that alerted the authorities to the bomb, who wouldve been killed by the attempted terrorist act. In I believe in Dallas or Houston there was an incident where an Arab was trolling Al Qaeda websites seeking material support to build a bomb to detonate. For some reason Texas has a large Muslim population; the cat didnt care if his bomb wouldve killed other Muslims or not. If you've watched the American Gangster episodes of Mutula Shakur, and Chazz Blackhand, they were criminals who just used the black power ideology to justify their crimes. Mutula Shakur, Tupacs stepfather actually killed a black cop in the course of a robbery. Its easy to say why should we care about these cacs in Boston who got blown up while running a race, but what if it was in Roxbury, Boston, which has always had a large, significant black population, where Malcolm X used to build, and lived with his sister when he was younger, or what if it was in Anacostia, D.C., or Howard University, or University of D.C., or Prince Georges County Community College, or Bowie State University, or the West Indian Day parade in New York, or Queens Bridge in Queens, East New York in Brooklyn. What if some terrorists set off a dirty bomb in D.C., and they detonated it when the wind was blowing east, so the containments would blow into Prince Georges County, a majority black county, or they set it off in Harlem, I doubt if any of those scenarios took place, we would be having this conservation. I understand your point, but the truth is if Abdul decides to blow himself up in a crowded market in Baghdad, we dont have any control over that, or if Jesus, and Jose decide to go into a bar in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and kills 20 some people with aks, we dont have any control over that either, just like we dont have any control of Tyronne if he decides to shoot Jerome in the head for hustling on his corner, or if Becky decides to slit her wrists because Mitchell took video of Becky giving him, and his boys becky, and put it on Shes Freaky. I go over to my cousins house, and Ill read the tabloids she buys. I read one a few months ago where Willow Smith, Will Smiths daughter was writing on twitter Im depressed, no one understands me!, I read another one where Lamar Odons daughter was talking about cutting herself, on some Woe is me! shyt. I dont care about these stupid broads, if they wanna kill themselves, more power to them, the world might be a better place. But if my sister was doing that stupid cry for attention shyt, I would care. Its a double standard at best, hyprocisy at worst
. But terrorism is real, and when it hits close to home people feel it. I was just listening to a radio story about world reactions to the bombing; they interviewed a Chinaman who said he was glad when the twin towers fell back in 2001. So what I'm saying is Americans aren't the only people who are ambivalent to the suffering of others.
