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Is explained here<\/a>. \u00a0Samuel Jackson was partly right<\/a>. \u00a0Had the San Bernardino shooters been white, it would have been different. \u00a0First, they\u2019re religion or politics would have been the prime and\/or only cause of the violence, even if we didn\u2019t know the facts. \u00a0If it turned out that these had nothing to do with it, then there would be no real going back and correcting the matter.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Likewise, had this fellow been a white Christian, then we would have days, perhaps weeks, of stories reminding us of America\u2019s racist past, the violence and evils of the Christian heritage, the anti-Islamic bigotry and hapless hordes of Muslims being butchered and slaughtered every day in America, and on and on. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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As it is, the suspect is not very white, and pretty Muslim. \u00a0No narratives to advance there. \u00a0Expect a couple up date stories in the days to come. \u00a0That is it. \u00a0It\u2019s all so different now because of who turned out to be the possible culprit. \u00a0Maybe Mr. Jackson wasn\u2019t being so silly after all.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Is explained here. \u00a0Samuel Jackson was partly right. \u00a0Had the San Bernardino shooters been white, it would have been different. \u00a0First, they\u2019re religion or politics would have been the prime and\/or only cause of the violence, even if we didn\u2019t know the facts. \u00a0If it turned out that these had nothing to do with it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy I haven't heard any more about the Houston Mosque fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Is explained here.  Samuel Jackson was partly right.  Had the San Bernardino shooters been white, it would have been different.  First,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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