Manns Medium

If anyone still wonders, is still confused or even still care about why the Klan still has power, the Holocaust still bears us pain, the Trial of Tears still rings in the ears of Native Americans and slavery still has not been reconciled by a nation, this may just help you understand why.  I simply call it the absence of closure because with any event or occurrence, there must be closure in order for the wound to heal and those wounded or effected by it to move on.  We have not moved beyond these things because we have gotten no closure to them and now add to this wound more damage caused by the failure to get closure on the Wall Street wreckage of the economy and now the rising number of police involved shootings of unarmed people.  Mount St Helen was once a quiet volcano until the heat built up and it blew.  These situations must be fixed and the newer ones need to stop before this entire nation blows over. I’ve reached this conclusion after reading this artic...

The first time I heard about Christopher Dorner and his killing spree, I was glued to the television and checking all stations for some more news.   All I got was focused on the alleged shooter and why he was so wrong in his actions.   Strangely, I understood this as the initial reaction to a story like this but as I am well known to do, I trusted that some journalist would dive deeper and attempt to discover more about why someone who had spent the majority of his life defending those who cannot or choose not to defend themselves would now, all of a sudden, turn and begin to commit the acts he swore to uphold.   That was until I read this article by Sharon Bernstein for NBC News Los Angeles titled Manifesto: Alleged Cop Revenge Shooter Named Targets, Blamed Asians, Hispanics and Lesbians and Updated 5:09 AM PST.   In this article Ms. Bernstein not only reports the news but also posts as much of this Manifesto as possible which allows readers to learn a li...