Anger

I have tried to stay away from the news.  It just makes me angry.  However, I did follow the shootings in Charleston.  I was shocked and disgusted at the way the rest of the damn country just walked all over those good people's corpses to grab their 15 minutes of fame.  They did not even wait for the bodies to get cold before they were descending on South Carolina to stir the pot.  And the fuss over a piece of cloth.  Really?  9 dead who were upstanding members of their community and all the so called activists and yankees were so intent on getting their 2 cents in and getting their names in the news, they just threw them away.  They did not count for anything but a catalyst to fan the flames of hatred and dissent.  Charleston was not even given a chance to take care of their own.  I have trouble finding the words to describe the disgust I feel.  Charleston, left alone, would have taken the flag down on it's own.  Charleston would have done the right thing.  But oh hell no.  Every yankee and his dog had to make their mark and they did  it by leaving footprints on the bodies of people who were so much better than any of those fools.  There was not one of those fools fit to clean the shoes of any of these nine.  And those fools will never be satisfied.  There is no money to be made in harmony among the citizens.  There is a lot of money to be made in keeping the pot stirred and the hatred brewing.  And that is what is happening. 

Stupidity of my countrymen

The killings in Charleston.  These were senseless acts by a bored, self-pitying, pos.  Nothing else.  He had been allowed to wallow in self-pity, never had to hold a job to support himself nor accept any responsibility.  So what does he do?  He goes into a building where he knows there will be no opposition, where he knows he will be safe in his stupidity and cruelty.  And he kills 9 people whom he is not fit to wipe their shoes.  What a waste. 
Then we see everyone making this about race and oh my! if that Confederate flag had not been flying, this would not have happened.  Really?  Did that flag just come down off that flag pole, put that gun in his hand, and force him to pull the trigger?  No.  He took that gun to church.  He pulled that trigger and apparently took the time to reload as he killed 9.  This is his.  Not the Confederate flag, not the South, not the so-called white commuinty, his. 
I am really tired of eveyone trying to blame everything in the South on white racism and the Confederacy.  First and foremost, racism does exist, but it exists on both sides.  Both sides have to work to eradicate it.  Second, the Confederacy had nothing to do with this. 
That flag is a sign of heritage to us.  It is honoring our dead.  It is defining a time in our history when we were slaughtered for trying to go about our business.  There are no cut and dried reasons for the Civil War.  It was legal.  There was nothing in the Constitution to prevent it.  And the South just wanted to be left alone.  If eliminating slavery was all it was about, then why not just let the South go?  That would have ended it.  And there would have been no more slave market in the North because the Confederate constitution forbade any slaves being brought into the South from anywhere.  So why not just let them go?  Several reasons: Anger.  The North did not want to lose the South and the businessmen saw a way to  make money 1) from the war and 2) from raping the South after the war.  It was about money.  Pure and simple. Money.  It would be real interesting to know the names of those businessmen in the North who were involved  in the slave trade before the war.  It would indeed.  Keep in mind that that Confederate flag never flew on a slave ship.  Did the US flag?