Martin O’Malley Completely Whiffs On Racism And Charleston Shooting
The racist terror attack on the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina has revived debates over gun control and the Confederate flag, but has also intensified the roiling issue of racism that has been building since the unrest in Ferguson, and the near-weekly incidents that have followed it. While the acceptable Republican line on racism and the Charleston shooting has been “Racism? What’s that?”, a Democratic candidate for the presidency ought to be a little bit better prepared for the question.
On Friday’s Morning Joe, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley was asked about the issues surrounding the shooting, and while he had a lot to say about gun control and mental health, he put up a big, fat goose-egg when asked how to tackle the issue of racism…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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greenfloyd June 20th, 2015 at 00:11
That “whiff” is the usual political/media BS mingled with the decaying bodies of the innocents.
The simple fact is individual “racism” is not a political issue, unless you are referring to this insidious institutional racism still on the books, i.e. New Jim Crow. Exactly how those destructive laws figure into the recent AME church massacre I’m not sure. However, I would not be surprised to learn they, along with negligent parents, played a major role in “radicalizing” a young Roof.
While we will never end racism with legislation, that does not mean we are powerless against it. I believe individual racism is a mental illness and it needs to be detected through regular mental health screenings of school age children. Like gun control this needs to be considered a “Public Health Emergency” just as if Ebola were to breakout in New Jersey. It must be near the top of any serious Presidential candidate’s list of priorities, as far as I’m concerned.
Of course it also takes a Congress… and therein is the rub.