Where One Boston Day Falls Short

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Where One Boston Day Falls Short

By Aaron Goldstein on 4.15.16 | 11:10PM

Today marks the third anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombings.

As per Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, April 15th will be known as One Boston Day in which “random acts of kindness and spreading goodwill" is encouraged.

While getting a hug from the Boston Ballet Nutcracker Bear and free admission into the Museum of Fine Arts is all well and good, kindness and goodwill are empty gestures without remembering there was an act of evil committed in this city and the religious ideology that inspired that evil is alive, well and not going away no matter how much we want to pretend it isn't there.

Let me put it this way. If instead of detonating explosives at the Boston Marathon, the Tsarnaev brothers had instead targeted African American parishioners inside a church would the City of Boston be pushing hugs with the Boston Ballet Nutcracker Bear? No, everyone from the Mayor on down would be speaking out against the evils of racism and rightly so. As such I see no reason why we cannot speak out against the evils of Islamic jihadist terrrorism on the anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing.

 

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kindness and goodwill are empty gestures without remembering there was an act of evil committed in this city and the religious ideology that inspired that evil is alive, well and not going away no matter how much we want to pretend it isn't there.

Sorry, just found this thread.  I didn't see it when it was posted because I actually was in Boston with Mr. M, who ran the marathon. I didn't see the Nutcracker Bear or experience any of the other touchy-feely-can't-we-all-just-get-along stuff, because I was busy going through security several times a day and walking a few miles out of my way just to get anywhere close enough to the course to try to see the race. Spectators remember the act of evil, because they're now greatly inconvenienced from it. The cops and officials certainly remember the act of evil, because that's their job.  It should be Marty Walsh's job, too.