Last week brought yet another infuriating example of America’s incessant tendency to ignore everything wrong until that wrong thing blows up in its collective face, and then ignore it again. Of course, I’m speaking of the nine African-Americans killed at the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Like all of America’s best examples of ignoring problems, this one checked off two boxes on the chronic cancers that we’ve been trying hard not to address: the proliferation of guns and g...
Published on June 26, 2015 18:23