The recent mass shooting in San Bernardino has been labeled an " act of terror" by the FBI, and before that, major media outlets. The media seems to have a two-tier level in determining what should be labeled an act of terror and what should be labeled as the act by a person who is mentally ill.
These labels, and when they are applied, are another expression of this country's brutally racist history. The Middle East couple in San Bernardino, are linked to ISIS and radical Islam and are defined as terrorists. But the terrorist label has not been attached to Dylann Roof, the white male responsible for the slaughter of nine African-Americans in a church in South Carolina. Roof was labeled as someone who was mentally ill, not a terrorist, even though he possessed white supremacist literature and subscribed to "Stormfront," a white supremacist web site that the FBI has linked to at least 100 murders in the last five years including the killing of police officers. Why was not this heinous and barbaric act defined as an act of domestic terrorism?
[For more of this story, written by Clifford Jackson, go to http://www.lohud.com/story/opi...al-illness/77429402/]
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