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Walked into my 3:30 class today and my students asked me what I thought about this. My response was that I don't have anything enlightening to say about this, and I doubt few do so soon afterwards. However, what is always educational about such events is to look at the narratives created in the immediate aftermath, as they are indicative of our desire to know and understand, which is often so great that we will conjure stories out of nothingness or pure supposition in order to sate our ignorance.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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