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I WROTE last week of my overwhelming emotion when my plane landed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport where the revered opposition leader to a dictatorship was assassinated in cold blood. Alas, this week the mass shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, apparently motivated by racial and religious hatred, once again shook our collective conscience. It reminded me of when I was a student in California, when racially motivated unrest erupted in Los Angeles, prompted by the brutal beatings by white police officers of a black American, Rodney King. I can still recall vividly that during the riots, King came out to try to help calm down the unruly situation by saying, “Can we all just get along?”