You, Sir, Have Blood On Your Hands

A mass shooting these days is like old news. As soon as the dust has settled from one, another one takes its place.

Today, there was a mass shooting in a hospital in Chicago. As of earlier this evening, four people are dead. While the suspected gunman is among the dead, so is a policeman who stepped into the line of fire.

As of last Monday, there have been over 314 mass shooting in 2018 so far. While there are always a number of factors that come into play when it comes to mass shooting, I can’t help but think that a certain person in Washington D.C. has played his role in this gruesome and heartbreaking statistic.

You sir, have blood on your hands. These shootings have happened your watch and you have done little to stop them. You have yet to enact national legislation that would force anyone purchasing a gun to go through a background check. You have not worked with mental health professionals to stop those who are determined to kill and have easy access to guns. After the shooting at the Synagogue in Pittsburgh, you stated that there should have been armed guards at the entrance.

You sir, are not just tone-deaf, but cold. You only hear what you want to hear, what makes you feel good. You don’t care about this country, you only care about yourself.

Yesterday, you stated that you give yourself an A+ as President. I give you an F and I hope that one day, this country wakes up to realize the kind of man whom we have elected to lead us.

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The Phenomenon of Anne Frank Book Review

Anne Frank is many things to many people, depending on whom one talks to. She was an ordinary teenage girl who went through the changes that we all went through at that age. She was a budding writer whose literary skills showed promise. She is an icon not just for the 1.5 million Jewish children who were slaughtered in The Holocaust, but for children around the world who are living and dying in war zones today. She is reminder of what hate and prejudice can do when we are blind to the humanity of our fellow mortals.

Her life and her brief time in hiding is immortalized in her published diaries The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank.

But the question is, who owns Anne’s likeness and more importantly, who owns how she is represented to the world? This question is answered in the new book, The Phenomenon of Anne Frank. Written by David Barnouw and edited by Jeanette K. Ringold, the book traces the history of Anne’s story from an ordinary teenage girl who was murdered because she was Jewish to an international icon who represents so much to so many.

The premise of this book sounded promising. However, it was a bit too scholarly and dry for my taste.

Do I recommend it? Maybe.