I would like to think their intentions are good but that is no $9 bulk price shirt. I would hate to see anyone try to profit off of a tragedy. I feel the same way about Mitt Romney running his mouth about the Confederate flag. Yes it should be removed but he didn't care about it a week ago and is only using this tragedy for political gain.
Erin I am so sorry for your loss. I can't even imagine the horror and sadness friends and family are feeling. My thoughts are with you.
"You are only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty."
Their intentions aren't good. They want to profit. Why do you need a shirt to show your respect, support, honor those people and those families. It's just some stupid sorority company prey on sorority girls that will be quick to throw down some money to show their faux concern....when the reality of the situation is they just think it's a cute sad shirt, about a cute little southern city that everyone "loves" and it gives them faux depth, it shows their faux concern and it makes them feel faux better about some poor little black lives that were lost at the hands of some "mentally ill man that just needed some help". Miss me with the BS. Then they will go back to no longer faux caring about people they never gave a d-mn about to begin with.... BUT OHMEGEE YAYZ NEW CUTE SOUTHERN SHIRT WITH CHARLESTON IMAGERY TO ADD TO MY DRAWER.
So yes. If you are willing to spend $25 on a cheer shirt, awesome. If you're willing to spend $15 on those 9 people make sure those 9 people get all $15 of your dollars. If that's not your wish then it sounds to me like all you want is a sassy, southern t shirt to add to your collection....and that $4 dollar donation is just a by product of you simply wanting another shirt.
And about the confederate flag. You're right. Nobody cared about that flag 4 days ago, 4 weeks ago, 4 years ago, or 4 decades ago. That racist terrorist would have shot those 9 black people whether that flag had been taken down 4 days ago, 4 weeks ago, 4 years ago, or 4 decades ago. I'm born and raised in Columbia and I've been looking at that flag on some area of the state house grounds my entire life. No that flag doesn't belong there, yes it should be taken down but that flag doesn't make people be terrible and and do terrible things. That flag and what it stands for is deeply engrained in people's hearts here and THATS what killed those people. THATS what killed my friend. That flag is just symbolic of a larger issue in this state and when all of those people are laid to rest, when the camera crews leave it's going to continue to fly and all of those people...white black and other that are acting like the flag did this are going to go back forgetting that the flag is there just like they've done since 2000 when it was moved from the top of the state house and placed in the one special spot in the forefront of the grounds
People are still going to continue to be racists because nobody has offered a solution to fixing what is ingrained and deeply rooted in the hearts of so many here.
Now excuse me I'm going to go back to figuring out how I'm going to go back to work tomorrow. How I'm going to drive past the racist killers house. How I'm going to spend 8 hours working in a library he used to use. Then I'm going to figure how I'm going to do it over and over again until I either quit or get transferred. And then later on I'll figure out how to go to Cynthia's funeral.
And this is why I have refrained from talking to anyone other than my family and old coworkers since Thursday.
Cynthia wouldn't even want her name on that shirt btw.
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