A gunman opened fire in a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket, killing 10 people and injuring three others.
The condemnation of the shooter’s actions has come almost exclusively, or so it appears, from the left, from the liberal side of the political divide.
I am waiting — with decreasing patience — to hear something from the right wing, from the conservative wing of the great divide. It’s not coming. At least not within my earshot.
What the … ?
I am at this moment shuddering at the thought that thoughtful, conservative Americans have elected politicians who — for whatever reason — are afraid to speak out against the hateful actions of the individual who drove to Buffalo, staked out the supermarket and then opened fire. A white guy shot 10 Black people to death in a fit of rage over something called “replacement theory.”
Someone will have to assure me that these pols’ silence doesn’t equate tacit or even overt support of what took place.
I am waiting.