Chris Rock Was Right-Be Afraid Of Al Cracker

Chris Rock caught some flack a few years ago for his joke in which he stated he was more afraid of Al Cracker than Al Qaida.

But like many jokes uttered by comedians, some have an element of truth to them.

Black people for starters have a long list of reasons to fear Al Cracker. The two centuries of terroristic behavior, lynchings, and race riots aimed at us before and after emancipation are the starting point of that distrust, loathing and fear.

The sadly long list of terrorist acts committed on American soil have overwhelmingly been planned and executed by white people such as 1995 Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

That list also includes notorious civil rights era bomber 'Dynamite Bob' Chambliss, whose grisly resume includes the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church one that killed four young girls and earned a certain city in Alabama the nickname 'Bombingham'

Eric Robert Rudolph executed the July 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park bombing that killed Alice Hawthorne and several others at a lesbian nightclub and two abortion clinics before he was captured May 31, 2003.

The recently arrested Hutaree militia members and IRS suicide pilot Joseph Andrew Stack highlight the growing anger of white people wallowing in privilege who mistakenly believe in the wake of the historic 2008 election of an African American president they need to use violent '2nd Amendment means' as Nevada Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle called it to 'take their country back'.

So yes, when large numbers of conservative white people utter the words 'state's rights', peddle fear and loathing of brown people, immigrants and people who practice a religion other than Christianity to bamboozle other less educated white folks into voting Republican November 2 and not care about the potential deadly consequences of their actions to the non-whites they are demonizing, then I and other non-whites have historically based good reasons to be afraid of Al Cracker.

15th Anniversary Of Oklahoma City Bombing

At 9:02 AM CDT 15 years ago, 5000 pounds of explosives inside a rented truck were detonated by domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

The explosion McVeigh set off was heard 30 miles away, but the emotional shock wave covered the entire country.

The terror attack killed 168 people including 19 children, destroyed half of the building and injured another 800 people.

The anti-government hate that fueled it is alive and well. It's only increasing in intensity since an African-American moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with his family.

Domestic terrorists in this country are disproportionately part of one ethnic group, and the terrorism as pointed out in a 2009 Homeland Security report is predominately coming from the right wing.

We need to be cognizant of that fact as we remember what happened 15 years ago today in Oklahoma City.

The anti-government rhetoric is even more polarizing and more racist than it was during the Clinton administration.

We also need to spend as much time and effort cracking down on domestic anti-government terrorists as we do keeping an eye on al-Qaeda and breaking up their terror cells.

When Is A Terrorist Attack NOT a Terrorist Attack?

One of the things I've been pondering since the attack on the building in Austin housing the IRS is this question.

Why is it that when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan killed 12 of his fellow soldiers and wounded another 31 at Fort Hood back on November 4, the T-word came out with no hesitation and the obligatory slamming of Islam soon followed?

But flip the script and you have a white male burn his house down, leave an anti government manifesto on the Net, and dive bombs a plane into a federal building housing the IRS, or another white male in 1995 instigates the destruction of another federal building in Oklahoma City, the MSM twists itself into a pretzel to avoid calling it a terrorist attack or say it's the work of a lone individual?

To delve further into Bizarro world, the same conservapeeps decrying the foiled Christmas underwear bomber and giving the president 'soft on terris' grief on it are calling this vanilla flavored one a hero.

Hmm.

So when is a terrorist attack NOT a terrorist attack?