i took a note during your hour. that line, everybody knows somebody was really the line of the hour by the majority leader, new york state assembly, peoples stokes, meaning everybody in that community in those somebody who lost a loved one, and at the tops market in east buffalo. it is just a tragedy that we will deal with, and in the way that we do. and the way we have before. and it s just a horrible familiarity to this ritual which we re going through now. yeah, i mean we are a country that has an incredible problem with mass shootings. we also have an incredible problem with political violence, particularly racially motivated, politically motivated violence. and that is something that we are never going to be new to, and it s not getting better, it s still getting worse. but it s very hard on these for days, particularly talking with people in that community, the tight-knit community who really are in a position when they know someone who was affected. we re gonna hav
everybody in that community in those somebody who lost a loved one, and at the tops market in east buffalo. it is just a tragedy that we will deal with, and in the way that we do. and the way we have before. and it s just a horrible familiarity to this ritual which we re going through now. yeah, i mean we are a country that has an incredible problem with mass shootings. we also have an incredible problem with political violence, particularly racially motivated, politically motivated violence. and that is something that we are never going to be new to, and it s not getting better, it s still getting worse. but it s very hard on these for days, particularly talking with people in that community, the tight-knit community who really are in a position when they know someone who was affected. we re gonna have some of the people who know somebody during this hour. thank you, rachel. thanks lawrence. thank you. thank you. i love buffalo the first day i arrived there in 1988,
age of baseball with ruth, and derek, and another commentator said that baseball was the best we could be, when it didn t have all its players those have been relegated to the negro leagues, i think about our society now, i our impression of blacks and hispanics, if they have to advance, it has to be at the expense of white people. how can society be the best we can be, if we don t have all the people at the table. if we re not taking advantage of everything people can offer. if we can re-frame the debate in that sense, if we can eliminate some sense of otherness, i recognize the fact that we can grow the society if we can value when everyone has to contribute at the table. ron watson and charles blow, thank you so much for beginning our production of these very difficult subject tonight, really appreciate it. and coming up, catherine massie wrote for a local newspaper asking for federal gun control
federal gun control, in a letter published in the buffalo news one year ago. one friend tells the buffalo news, we lost a powerful, powerful voice. joining us now is ava doyle, friend of katherine kat massey, they both were members of the grassroots organization we are women warriors. i was i am very very sorry for your loss, i d like to thank you for sharing your thoughts with us tonight. yes, thank, you thank you for inviting me. what can you tell us about your friend katherine kat massey? please go ahead, tell us about kat. she was very well-known, she was a fellow writer, she wrote many articles that she submitted to the local papers. she was an activist, she was an
been relegated to the negro leagues, i think about our society now, i our impression of blacks and hispanics, if they have to advance, it has to be at the expense of white people. how can society be the best we can be, if we don t have all the people at the table. if we re not taking advantage of everything people can offer. if we can re-frame the debate in that sense, if we can eliminate some sense of otherness, i recognize the fact that we can grow the society if we can value when everyone has to contribute at the table. ron watson and charles blow, thank you so much for beginning our production of these very difficult subject tonight, really appreciate it. and coming up, catherine massie wrote for a local newspaper asking for federal gun control laws last year on saturday, she was murdered, by the mass murderer with a weapon of war at her supermarket. her friend, eva doyle, will join us next.