I've
heard the statement that I referenced above far too many times. I think that some fathers make such a
statement, but probably wouldn't actually kill anyone. They may never speak to their daughters again
and they may cut them out of whatever will they've prepared, but they wouldn't
actually kill a person.
I
absolutely know that some fathers I've heard make that statement would, indeed,
kill the man the daughter brought home or both the man and the daughter. Killing people these days has become what 1950s
and 1960s TV portrayed it to be like in "the old west". One person pulls a trigger and another falls
dead. Can you just imagine the killer
blowing the smoke away from the barrel of his gun and putting it back into his
holster, tipping his cowboy hat and riding off into the sunset?
The
people who went to watch Batman chose to attend that particular showing. I've heard people say that those who were
killed were innocent victims. They
merely chose to attend that particular showing.
If they chose where they would be at that particular time, where's the
guilt in possessing a characteristic that one had no choice in possessing?
James
Brown recorded a song entitled "I'm Black And I'm Proud". I love James Brown and, when I was a singer
in a band, I tried, without success, to imitate James Brown. However, James Brown didn't earn his
Blackness and, in no way, could ever truly be proud of that "accomplishment". However, the hue of the skin of the late Mr.
Brown was not a punishment, either. To
say it wasn't his "fault" that he was born Black is just as absurd as saying
that he should have been "proud" to be Black.
It's no more a fault to be Black than it is to be Brown or Yellow or
White. It is what it is. It's a fact, period!
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