Thursday, February 19, 2015
Obama's Response to Chapel HIll Shooting
Obama referred to the shooting of three Muslims at Chapel Hill as "brutal and outrageous" but did not state that it was a hate crime. The president's remarks came after Turkey's president commented on the White House's silence. Turkey's president asked, " I ask Mr.Obama, where are you, Mr.President?"
As a North Carolinian, I have to ask myself, wasw this a hate crime? There's been so many lately, so how is our government going to fix this? Our country relies on our government officials, such as cops, to keep us safe. In a country likes ours, where we are granted so many freedoms, why can't we be safe? Why are we threatened for being ourselves?
I think it's great that Obama is finally commneting on this incident. Now since he's addressed it, what will he do to attempt to fix it? We can't ignore the amount of hate in our country. Racist, sexist, homophobic people are, unfortunately, out there and we have no way to stop that. But can we maybe change their standpoint a little? Only one way to find out.
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I definitely agree with you we as a nation must start to find a way to unite and bring a end to this current divide among our citizens. There seems to be too much hate because of who one is and should never be the case we must learn to accept people as the are. Great post!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, it is great that Obama finally responded to this situation. I wrote my post last week about the Chapel Hill shootings and my opinion is that it was not necessarily a hate crime, but a crime that was eventually going to happen, sparked by the fact that the victims were muslims. Overall, great post. I liked that you asked so many questions, it made me think.
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