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Not on the dialogue table: Nancy Lanza and HER money and guns killed
I learned something when my kids were growing up. We were broke but not poor as I was in grad school in southern Illinois and my kids attended the only high school with children of professors and doctors and lawyers. We had a nice apt on campus but little money.
My kids would tell me about the beer parties the high school students would host when the parents were out of town or on vacation. My kids did not attend. I never had STREET DRUGS OF ANY KIND, PRESCRIPTION DRUGS OF ANY KIND, BEER, WINE, CIGARETTES, GUNS, OR WEAPONS IN THE HOUSE. This is what I taught my kids without saying a word. They never saw me imbibe any of the above because that was beyond my spirititual beliefs. They were surprised at what the middle class white kids would get into and so was I.
I also learned from other teen relatives that often the parents had the street drugs in the home and that is where the kids got their hits too. So a thought crossed my mind: How much of this is related to SES and available money for kids who do not work?
My kids did not have money to buy beer or guns and I certainly never had them around for them to “borrow” or go to shooting range with. Children who are not our own and those who are our own learn what they see and are taught in non verbal manners. The violent video games and movies are all apart of the mix.
This is why this issue is so difficult. Gun laws are on the books. We don’t need the bullets that kill the shit out of a person nor the handguns. But then again we don’t need the alcohol that often fuels these fires. What to do? Point the finger and the blame where it lies. These school killings only happened among middle class white areas almost exclusively. Most of the shooters were white or NOT black but Asian.
In general due to economic restraists blacks don’t buy rifles and expensive guns and killing machines. Where would they store them? And if they could store them how would they buy them and the bullets to go with them. Why would they buy them when they have precious little money for other things they would first ask themselves. Not saying they are better parents but it is a financial reality.
What would solve this problem that is so multi-faceted? Who is to blame: society, parents, guns available legally and illegally, violent culture, revenge gang crimes.
The list goes on. On the other side of the rifle coin we have urban blacks using and buying handguns which were banned in Chicago. Mind you they are cheaper weapons and so are the bullets and also easier to get by anyone. But they still kill one person one black boy or girl or child at a time. No one with a handgun is going to a school and shoot it up. They won’t get too far. But they will do a drive by and kill whomever they can who LOOKS like them.
Yes, blacks and browns have more crimes on the books than whites. But does it matter? If you think it matters then you are also on the side of where parents and fathers have gone wrong by their absence in the life of their sons, their black and brown sons who commit most of these violent crimes. Why can’t this be applied to whites and their money and their big guns?
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- New Details Emerge A Week After School Massacre (connecticut.cbslocal.com)
Lanza is an ethnic Italian Jewish name
Just out of curiosity I looked up the name Lanza which sounds Italian. It is Sicilian and Jewish
http://www.italian-family-history.com/jewish/Sicilia.html
According to this genealogy site. The columbine killer was also an ethnic Jew klebold or something like that. We know Amy Bishop was a Jew thanks to heloise. The media shut that down in a second.
Adam can also be popular as a Jewish surname. But names that begin with a J seem to be most common among Jewish men. I am sure Adam Lanza and his family or at least his father and sons are ethnically Jewish.
Peter Lanza and his picture need no explanation. He looks totally like a Sicialian Jew which is the origin of the name Lanza. The mom was probably a WASP, have to check on it. Nancy Champion is the maiden name of Nancy Lanza. She has blond hair and blue eyes. The boys not surprisingly did not inherit her looks but the swarthy look of their Jewish dad. Not only are they Jewish stock but many of tHe kids in the school were also Jews who were shot dead by Adam.
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- Ryan Lanza Responds on Facebook After Media Erroneously Reports Him as Sandy Hook Killer (thehollywoodgossip.com)
- What We Know About Nancy Lanza – The Mother of Sandy Hook Shooter Adam Lanza (americanlivewire.com)
- Reports: Nancy Lanza Wasn’t A Teacher At Sandy Hook Elementary (mediaite.com)
- Why did she leave her guns accessible to an autistic child? (vumanews.com)
Mass shooting kills kids at school
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school/?hpt=hp_t1
The suspect is dead at this time.December 14th, 201212:57 PM ETChildren and adults gunned down in Connecticut school massacre
- There’s been a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
- We’re told “close to 20″ people are dead, including at least 10 children
- Below are the latest updates as they come to us
[Updated at 1:07 p.m. ET] Here’s the chilling account told to CNN’s Meredith Artley of what happened at the school.
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“Who is Black?” with Soledad O’Brien
It seems that anybody who can get a few mixed race people together who look white, black and in between and get them to talk on camera then voila you have a show on CNN about what it means to be black in America or just look not black.
Many of the anecdotes rang true especially for my kids, my sister and my cousin and often for myself. Especially people, usually black people, asking you what are you over and over again. This is due in part because in their minds you don’t look black and they are not really ready to accept you as black.
This also happened in a big way to my sister who has a different mother but same biological father. More later
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- CNN’s Soledad O’Brien profiles one woman teaching children of color about colorism in her “Who is Black in America?” (startingpoint.blogs.cnn.com)
- Soledad Shares Reactions To ‘Who Is Black In America?’ [Video] (newsone.com)
Corpus Christi=Deep Urban Blight or It’s a dump
Corpus Christi, it ain’t a city so don’t let that nice photo fool you. Up close you see weedy lots and buildings that have not been updated decades. I know. I just got back from Corpus Christi Texas and busy with teaching extra classes and reviewing a new textbook, for which I get paid. So I’ve had web access but little time for more than quick online checks.
I am glad the election is over but not surprised Obama won. I was for him then I was against him and now I don’t care. If you want to see what the future looks like with illegals having a free reign in this country and white flight from urban areas come to Corpus. It’s a dump and I got racially profiled when leaving that dump. They probably have never seen a black middle class person in that town as there probably are few and even fewer flying from their tiny airport.
So, I got separated from my party of other white women and went through the security line alone. They frisked me, went through my checked bag because the lock was gone and took trace sample from my hands. Well, kiss me again, because I was the only freaking yogi in the whole damn airport, a black, swarthy one at that and I got profiled! FU CC. You city is a pure dump. The downtown only had a few building on it with free parking and once off the main street facing CC bay, Shoreline drive, the town turns into nothing but vacated buildings left long ago by white folks who went other places in Texas.
The building look abandoned for decades not recently mind you. I mean it was creepy and ugly just one block off the shore. The hotels were old and NOT updated at all. In fact next to the best hotel in town the Omni was a vacant lot covered in weeds! What a hell hole. But we had fun. What else do you expect from a town that is 75% Mexican and only 3% white and the rest other?
You get a creepy, vacant looking, broken down, boarded up, fenced off, weeded up city dump. CC you should be ashmed but the city revenue is not there because white folks have fled! I don’t blame them one bit.
I get profiled the city gets slammed.
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Unprecedented catastrophe on East Coast
Every time I teach catastrophic events something big happens. We did a model of a hurricane hitting the East Coast a week before Sandy was born. I told the kids that route almost never happens. I also told them to watch for an event because a big one is coming.
I told my psychologist I once had a dream that we went to the moon to destroy it. The moon this time will cause a lot of higher tides and a stronger storm surge.
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