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This one will stick out.

CHARLESTON

This one will stick out. The first night after the shooting Rachel Maddow went through the list of all the shootings/mass killings from what was I think the last year - may have been six months. The problem was , I did not remember even half of them - just common place " how we roll " in 2015 America. But this one we will remember.

The President says that " man, we really really ought to do something about this problem - I mean I am doing this like every other month " . Fox and the NRA come back with " The black guy is politicizing the horror that just happened , let's do nothing". Over and over and over and over ....

The crazy black coat shoot 'em up high school kid, the disgruntle worker, crazy ex - all a dime a dozen. No to really stand out in the age of the NRA you have to take out an entire Kindergarten, interrupt a new Batman release - or take out an entire Wednesday night bible study class - that you just sat in on . 

We can not wrap out heads around why someone does something as horrible as most of these - but these murders have a name and a face. A monster that we collectively think only lives in history books and Henry Gates documentaries on PBS . A narrative that folks have told themselves, that this beast is long dead there for I can say HORRIBLE things about the very first black President and still be coated in the purest of Ronnie's Teflon. I can be as racist as I want to be laughing it up at all those internet watermellons - because its all just good clean fun for the golf course - right ? This time that well fed fat monster showed up in broad day light - and nine people are dead because of the color of their skin.

No, the GOP front runners and their mouthpieces could not name the beast because they will need it come late February for their South Carolina primary. This guy - and really , I have already forgotten his name, kicked over that log out in the woods showing all those gross crawly things on the other side of us - the question now is will this one matter at all ?