Sad excuse for national debate...

So it has been a few days since the tragedy at Ft. Hood, Texas and Orlando, Florida and I’m struck by the idiocy and blatant prejudice of the media coverage. Let me first state plainly that both acts of violence are abhorrent and I strongly condemn both men and their actions. But in viewing the coverage its is sickening to my stomach to see the American citizen-whose parents are of Palestinian lineage- be immediately accused and associated with terrorism, however the white American in Florida is labeled "distraught over finances." Please help me understand how its seemingly ok for a white man to slaughter innocents and escape a terrorism charge but the second someone even loosely tied to Islam commits such an act they are immediately accused of terrorism, and as of Monday (11/9/2009) there is an effort to link this military psychiatrist to a mosque where 9/11 hijackers fellowshipped. Americans love to feign ignorance over how Muslim Americans or Arab and other Muslims around the world develop an antipathy toward America but for an African American like myself, it’s as clear as day why the antipathy grows and festers, America is the MOST hypocritical nation around today. We've had our own share of terrorists throughout our history, from those FOUNDING FATHERS that mastered the slave trade, down through the Southern segregationists and their Jim Crow south, to Timothy McVeigh, the Unabomber, and the Columbine duo. Our problem is we choose to view terrorism through a lens of 'everyone but us' we believe our own hype that America is the world’s last best hope' that everything America does is right and beyond reproach. It’s a ridiculous fallacy and the sort of hubris that gets people killed. I won't attempt to justify Major Hasan's corrosive actions, but let’s also consider what role America's reckless foreign policies may have played in pushing this America soldier beyond the brink, beyond what his education should have taught him not to do. It is too easy to blame it on 'Islamic extremism' as FoxNews and Sen. Lieberman loves to do, it is more difficult to objectively evaluate our own actions, and figure out is this tragedy was preventable. In the days and weeks to come, unfortunately the white man's terrorist actions will be easily forgotten while the brown man's actions will not, and they will not because our incompetent MSM pushes an inane idea that instinctively associates Muslims with terrorism and whites with 'hope & freedom.' It’s ridiculous and hypocritical, but hey it’s America at its worst, and that’s what we choose to believe (despite evidence to the contrary).