Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Fist Bump, the Witch is Dead! Which Ol' Witch? The WICKED

There should be no celebration, private or otherwise, over someone's death. It's appalling. Will people fist bump when Dick Cheney dies? As much as I hate him, I certainly hope not. I'm also old enough to remember Junior High school students whooping and celebrating Ronald Reagan getting shot. Furthermore, it seems that the current celebration over Osama Bin Laden's death is more over murder (i.e., revenge killing) than death. If Bin Laden had died from a heart attack, who would have jumped up and down? When Pol Pot died, Americans didn't budge. When Roosevelt died - a man who ordered the interment of hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans - there was no celebration, neither when Truman passed away after having murdered over 200,000 civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Folks have got to ask themselves why they're so ecstatic. A dear friend of mine escaped the South Tower on 9/11/2001. Shortly after 9/11, a friend from Jordan lost his job and moved back to the UK because of all the hate Americans vomited toward anyone who "looked Arab". When Bin Laden was killed, his wife was critically injured. People who awoke to the shocking sounds of the raid will suffer nightmares as eventually will the Navy Seals of Team 6. Yeah. Let's celebrate. Whoopee.