After reading the above, you may well feel grateful that we
here in NZ have gun control laws that at least limit the damage done by racial
bigots. It’s easy to simply say that it couldn't happen here, but that is no
answer in real terms.
The difference here is that at least we have developed the
ways and means of demanding some sense of equality and justice by accepting a
series of laws and behaviours that represent an acceptance of differences as
the norm rather than the exception.
This is Dylann Roof the 21 year old self-confessed murderer
of nine black Americans; his jacket shows the flags of White South Africa and
white Rhodesia. His parents gave him a pistol for his birthday. He is a
so-called Christian, and he is not alone in his hatred. I can only hope his
parents realise just what they created. For it would appear that the deeply
ingrained racial hatred was taught and that the birthday gift was simply the
trigger to enable him to put into action his learned behaviour. He wasn’t born
a killer…but his cultural back ground turned him into one. In fact it appears
that he was taught to hate…that’s not education its brain washing of the
highest order.
Yes his hate crime should be a lesson to us all, we must not
use his mental state as an excuse, nor the open availability of weapons, [I
mean what other country has a bunch of idiots like the US National Rifle
Association deciding the gun laws for a nation].
I’m sure I’m stating the obvious when I say that all of us
have a duty to teach our children to respect all peoples with understanding and
the acceptance of cultural differences is a key role in this enlightenment.
Here in NZ we have been awash with anti-Muslim language via
our politicians and our main stream media, we must remain alert and pro-active
in bringing back a perspective that leads to respect for and understanding of
differences in both the social and cultural behaviours that we both teach and
follow.
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