Today we share a brief excerpt of the Live Official Pres Conference by the Colorado Springs Law Enforcement and their District Attorney's and Mayor's office concerning the shooting at Nightclub Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs. On November 19, 2022, a lone gunman entered the Nightclub and fired his gun into the nightclub. He entered the club shooting indiscriminately, killing five and injuring several, before two men, Thomas and Richard disabled the gunman and beating him to the ground. The suspect is currently recovering from injuries and is to be formally arrested and charged and taken in for questioning. according to Mr. Michael Allen, the District Attorney in Colorado reported.
This shooting speaks to a wider and larger issue in society; the rise in extremism, and not just black-on-black violence stemming from poverty and other social decays, but there have been several incidents of violence in America aimed at certain groups based on a particular political, racial, ethnic or religious bias. Moreover, today, Russia is justifying their violence as a world saving mission because Putin believe that Ukraine seems to be taken on values that are anti-Russian and threatens their dominance and majority in the region. Hence, while we seek justice for the victims of this heinous attack, there are those who feel justified for their actions of violence.
The suicide bombers who had hijacked the planes on 9/11 felt justified and believed that they were serving Allah and that virgins would meet them when they die.
The January 6 insurrectionists believed that they were justified and within their rights to attack, with violence, the US capitol to usurp or protect their power which was a demonstration of their privilege.
While the 18-year-old white male who used his AK-47 and gunned down 11 African Americans at a supermarket felt justified as he was entranced by white extremists' replacement ideology. This behavior is taken root, as people either seek to privilege a biased position or envy another's. This is the end of progress and continues the challenges we face as humanity. Until we learn that the ultimate of all things is that we become one reality in all of our individuality.
I provide commentary on the shooting at the Nightclub with excerpts of the news conference and then provide an analysis in relation to a wider issue on extremism, Occidentalism, orientalism and the problem of power, position, status and how their strategies prose challenges for society and is the result of the dynamics that pertains in society today. I begin to raise these concepts in my new Book: Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered, which will be out late December, early 2023, and this also provides a foundational and anecdotal basis to continue looking and studying power and the dynamics of human society.
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Rev. Renaldo McKenzie is the host/creator of The Neoliberal Round Podcast. Renaldo is a doctoral student at Georgetown University and graduated twice from the University of Pennsylvania. Renaldo also attended The University of the West Indies and graduated from The Jamaica Theological Seminary and is a Lecturer and Academic. Renaldo is currently completing his second book Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered and is the author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance.
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