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“I think that it’s worth the cost, unfortunately, of some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” Charlie Kirk, April 5, 2023.
Charlie Kirk is dead.
He was a husband, a father, and a human being.
We mourn his loss,
As we did with Minnesota
Representative Melissa Horman, her husband, their Golden Retriever, and the
attempted murder of two other Democratic state lawmakers.
Malcolm and
Canterbury said, “The chickens have come home to roost.”
This violence is
no different.
Unlike the right, which
made jokes about the assault on the husband of Speaker Emeritus Pelosi.
Before Charlie
achieved full rigor mortis,
His death had been
weaponized to guarantee more violence.
I never agreed
with his Neo-Fascist movement,
Turning Point,
USA,
He famously said
that
Associate Justice
Ketanji Brown-Jackson was a “DEI hire,”
Code for she’s
unqualified,
Justice Jackson is
a Harvard Law graduate,
A former public
defender and appellate judge,
He doubted the
competency of black commercial pilots,
When 90-95% of
them are white,
Which means that
if accidents happen,
Black pilots are
less likely to be the cause of them.
He’s also
inscribed criminality on black bodies and lied about statistics.
Charlie dropped
out of community college,
As did Rush
Limbaugh,
As did Alex Jones,
As did Sean
Hannity,
As did Glenn Beck,
I see a pattern of
“WEI”: white, entitled, incompetent,
Mediocre white men
who couldn’t face their own shortcomings,
Hat tip to Lurie
Daniel Favors,
And subsequently
found a profitable shtick to cope with it.
But it’s
destroying our body politic.
At the writing of
this piece,
A “person of
interest” was questioned, then released.
My pure speculation
before Tyler Robinson’s capture:
The shooter had a
powered, or other type of long rifle, with a decent amount of rifle training to
spot his target from 520 feet away during the day.
He was reportedly
dressed in all-black, head-to-toe, American flag on his chest.
It won't be the
last.
The one thing that
would have surprised me:
If the shooter
wasn’t white.
Utah is “white
Wakanda.”
I still, to this
day, post-PhD, and substantial life experience,
Cause Caucasian
women to shift their purses on an elevator by entering it.
It doesn’t matter
if I’m wearing a suit, jeans, or Dockers.
It is a melancholy
I’ve learned to live with,
Despite the
following statistics:
“Between 1982
and August 2025, 84 out of the 155 mass shootings in the United States were
carried out by white shooters.
“By comparison,
the perpetrator was Black in 26 mass shootings and Latino in 12.
“This is 54
percent white, 17 percent black, and 8 percent Latino, respectively.”[1]
Yet, I am the
enemy, and not Tyler Robinson or Dylann Roof.
I notice that ICE
is not profiling or rounding up stray, suspicious-looking Caucasians.
“Do me a favor.
Knock the crap out of them, won’t you?”
“In the good
old days, people like that would be taken out on a stretcher, folks!”
We’re more than
seven degrees of separation from that sick joke.
Our iconography
and ideology try to cosplay the Roman Empire,
Colonizers and
sadistic occupiers of Judea,
Where a
brown-skinned Aramaic prophet assailed a brutal fascist dictatorship by turning
conquest and brutality into compassion and empathy.
Where a
brown-skinned Aramaic prophet healed the evidence,
His disciple, who
would go on to deny he knew him three times,
That ear slicing
would have led to the disciple’s Capital Punishment: Death by public hanging.
“Put your sword
back in its place,” Jesus
said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.” Matthew
26:52
Lao Tzu,
Thousands of
miles, and six centuries earlier,
Penned Chapter 42
Of the Tao Te
Ching:
“The Tao begot
one.
“One begot two.
“Two begot
three.
“And three
begot the ten thousand things.
“The ten
thousand things carry yin and embrace yang.
“They achieve
harmony by combining these forces.
“What others
teach, I also teach; that is:
“A violent
man will die a violent death!”
This will be
the essence of my teaching.”
“Hunter Brown,
a 24-year-old junior at Utah Valley University in Orem, was about 10 feet from
the stage where Kirk was speaking before an audience at the campus. He said
Kirk was talking about shootings by transgender people in response to an
audience member’s question when a single gunshot rang out.”[2]
The last word
reported on Charlie’s lips,
Before he
succumbed to the assassin’s bullet,
Was the word “violence”
“Death and life
are in the power of the tongue.”
Proverbs 18:21
“All who draw
the sword will die by the sword.”
“A violent man
will die a violent death!”
A violent nation
will die a violent death!
Solution:
