08-10-2019, 04:01 PM
deckeda wrote:
Lemon, please note that HE first sought this exposure out. My sympathies for him fantasizing about it not being controversial, let alone critical, stop right there.
The White House had no idea who he was until after he came forward and expressed a desire to meet with the president. That set in motion two staffers showing up at their house to extend the formal invite.
Not to worry. He's been right there at the auto shop, grieving on customers' cars all week.
If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
-- R. Carter
I think this is where personal animosity towards any person with conservative views goes over the edge. Consider the situation of this family. Yes, they are conservatives who supported Trump. So the f#ck what?
After Sandy Hook when Obama visited Newtown he was photographed smiling broadly while holding the infant granddaughter of the murdered school principal. Should Republicans have jumped all over that and all over the parents of the infant who handed the baby to the President? If they did, how would you respond? I can guess.
There is no excuse for anyone to be harassing this family online or otherwise. They are suffering and they didn't do anything wrong.
Save the ire for President Trump and the man who shot the baby's parents. That's who deserves it.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/749099244...storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
As President Trump headed to El Paso on Wednesday and the grieving communities held vigils to mourn the dead, Andre's older brother and father were back at work in the family's auto shop, figuring out how to press on.
"It's gonna be rough without my brother being there," Tito Anchondo told NPR. "We just have to keep moving forward, and that's the reason we're open right now because the bills don't stop and we have jobs here that still need to be finished."
As the country responds and his community reacts to the tragedy, Tito is watching his own family mourn. "My dad is very Mexican macho. He doesn't like to show emotion. I'm sure he's cried by himself," he said. His mother is inconsolable and "just in tears all the time."