Three days ago, a white supremacist shot and killed Maurice Stallard (69) and Vickie Jones (67), for existing while Black.
Yesterday, another white supremacist shot and killed Joyce Feinberg (75) Richard Gottfried (65), Rose Mallinger (97), Jerry Rabinowitz (66), Cecil Rosenthal (59), David Rosenthal (54), Bernice Simon (84), Sylvan Simon (86), Daniel Stein (71), Melvin Wax (88), Irving Younger (69).
Angry white men are literally murdering Black and Jewish grandparents—GRANDPARENTS—and Trump is dancing on live TV and tweeting about baseball.
Maurice and Vickie were killed in a Kroger 20 minutes from my house, 2 minutes from my mom’s work. The local news is already trying to turn it into a “mental illness” issue, completely glossing over the fact that he told another WHITE shopper “whites don’t kill whites” before shooting these two people. He was seen on tape attempting to enter a black Baptist church, and they were only saved because their doors were locked.
Jefferson is one of two blue counties in the red state of Kentucky. But that doesn’t exclude us from prejudice. Just this past weekend, people were openly selling these at a gun show:
(Photos courtesy of Joe Gerth at the Courier-Journal – bottom photo is an old KKK robe)
No state, no city, no neighborhood is free from this hate. We, and by we I mean white people, need to stop making excuses for these white- supremacist terrorists and confront the very real racism present in our communities.