It would be hard to say that the Ku Klux Klan wasn't a form of domestic terrorism that was practiced in the 1960's. Burning crosses in front of a house struck terror in the hearts of anyone that lived there. The Klan was quite violent, blowing up churches and houses in the southern United States. As a child in Mississippi, I still remember seeing a house blown apart in Holly Springs as my family was driving through town on US-78. Some civil rights workers had been blown up in that house.
Now, white people don't feel safe walking through inner-city, predominantly black neighborhoods. Is that terrorism? When people are attacked just because of their race as they have car trouble or get lost, isn't that a form of terrorism?
Are these attacks a form of retribution for past evils? I know I have never owned any slaves. I'm not sure, but I don't think my relatives were slave owners either. When we lived in Mississippi in the 1960's, I remember a restaurant near our home where we never ate. I asked my mother why we didn't go to that restaurant, and she said it was because the owner was in the Klan. We weren't anti-segregationist activists or anything like that, but my family certainly never treated African-Americans with disrespect. I don't feel that I deserve to be attacked as "pay-back" for segregation or slavery. I didn't have anything to do with it.
Like many of you, I have been watching news reports about the white Australian college student in Oklahoma. He was gunned down as he was jogging along the side of a street. The alleged gunmen were three African-American teenagers. They reportedly said they were bored and decided to go out and shoot someone for fun. Now some "tweets" have surfaced with racial hate speech, and they were supposedly sent by one of the gunmen. There have been allegations of a gang initiation being the motivation for the killing. That certainly sounds like intimidation, and it would tend to result in terror if white people were worried about being shot in a random act like this one. That is terrorism.
Have inner-city gangs declared war on white people? Are they just waging war against rival gangs? The Mafia certainly intimidated people and used their techniques to "shake down" people in their neighborhoods. Now, street gangs practice similar intimidation techniques. If they have initiations for their new members that involve killing white people for sport, that is a combination of terrorism and racism.
We have our race baiting MessAPolitico in America. These activists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpeton love to make headlines on those rare occasions when an African-American is attacked by a white person. Now, where are these activists when a white guest in our country is gunned down by African-American thugs out to shoot a white person for sport. President Obama seems to always have something to say in every high profile case with even a hint of racism involved. The president is strangely silent, and his deputy press secretary says that they aren't aware of the case. I guess this case doesn't further the agenda of the MessAPolitico.
Most of us think of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv when terrorism is mentioned. We also might think of Iraq or Beirut or Benghazi. Maybe we should think of Detroit or south Chicago or south Memphis. How about southeast Washington or the Bronx? Would you experience terror if you are white and were dropped off in any of these neighborhoods?
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