How terribly sad and touching. So many innocent, good and courageous people being gunned down due to a few “bad eggs” out there, both white and black.

As I’ve said elsewhere, the white parents who keep teaching their kids racism by example or by directives, are the ones to blame for all of this racial strife and tragedy, ultimately. After all these years have gone by since the Civil War, we would be an integrated society if it weren’t for those who still insist upon white supremacy, at whatever level. Black people have been suppressed by white society for far too long in the United States, and have been in pyschological pain over this suppression since they were unwillingly dragged to this Country. I’m surprised that today’s scenario hasn’t taken place before this. Anyone whose humanity is suppressed, as black humanity has been, eventually will fight back. The more white supremacist cops kill innocent black guys, the more the black community is going to rise up. Although this black shooter in Dallas was suffering from PTSD and other effects of war, this may not be the case in the future. What war did to him is another story.

Our National legacy on racism has not been pretty or productive for our Country. My mother was racist, although she claimed not to be. She came from an era where many white people were racist, simply because they were afraid of losing their supposed “white supremacy.” White people were afraid that the black people would take what they had in society (that there wouldn’t be enough of whatever for everyone) while black people where afraid of white people for their lives. The black people still are afraid, whereas most of the white supremacists today are mostly arrogant. When and where will this end? Fortunately for me, I wasn’t susceptible to following that groundless and mindless philosophy of white supremacy. Although I am white, I don’t fear that I am not better than someone else who doesn’t look and act like me. We all are human and we ALL MATTER.