KING: The world should be grieving over Canadian mosque shooting

by Shaun King and the NY Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/king-world-grieving-canadian-mosque-shooting-article-1.2960334

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Instead, the suspected shooter was a bigoted 27-year-old white man known to many as a conservative online troll and white nationalist who voiced support for Donald Trump. Perhaps this is why Donald Trump has not personally mentioned this mass shooting even though it was the deadliest single incident in North America since he was inaugurated?

What I know is this — had the shooter actually been a Muslim who walked into a quaint little Baptist church full of white folk singing Amazing Grace, not only would Trump be genuinely outraged right now, the entire conservative machine would be mobilizing against what they call radical Islam. It appears that radical whiteness simply does not bother them.

People stand with a sign for peace near the Québec City Islamic cultural center after a shooting killed six people on Jan. 29.
People stand with a sign for peace near the Québec City Islamic cultural center after a shooting killed six people on Jan. 29. (ALICE CHICHE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
But you know, and I know, that had this shooter been a Muslim, who killed white Christians, tens of millions of people all over the world would've changed their profile picture to the Canadian flag. We'd be hearing harrowing tales of the survivors and seeing emotional reflections on those who lost their lives. The coverage would be non-stop.

That's damn sure not our reality right now though. A Muslim life taken by a white bigot clearly does not matter as it would if the roles were reversed. And that's just gross. It gets to the root of what I really think happened here — now that conservatives, including Donald Trump, learned that the shooter was a white conservative, they aren't outraged, because they really don't mind what he did.

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