Orlando: Hatred is everywhere. Everyone is affected.

The brutal killing of black, white, and Latino’s at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida has led to an outpouring of grief and anger across the world. One can only imagine the grief of those left behind or whose families now face years of hospitalisation, disfigurement, impairment and disability.

My heart goes to those affected, my anger is focused on our own culpability as a wider society.

If the killer, Omar Mateen was suffering from some sort of acute mental illness, then this combined with America's deeply dysfunctional love of high-grade weaponry, has resulted, yet again in another bloody tragedy that reveals the awful reality, that hate, bigotry and racism are never far below the surface of American society.

In the current in the current political febrile atmosphere both here and in the United States I think the extent to which the poisonous rhetoric of homophobia, racism and religious bigotry have become routine in the daily news cycle and political commentary is having an effect on the most vulnerable in our society.

Every day, in every way violence and hate has become the everyday language. Today even the vilest prejudice has become normalised. Just tune into to Katie Hopkins. On the all white London Broadcasting Caucasian radio company, LBC to see what I mean.

Politicians and the media are to blame for this damming state of affairs. There is the language of scapegoating, exploitation and the demonising of all minority groups. They would target anyone, including their own grandmother; if they thought it could secure their hapless political fortunes. And each day their screaming headlines become more lurid, more extreme and consequently more violent.

We’re all affected and in society those suffering from mental illness will also be affected by such hateful rhetoric repeated endlessly on our day-to-day news programs.

It's the language of Donald Trump, the Ku Klux Klan, the Republican dominated Congress, Fox News and many more I could mention. It's the language of Nigel Farage and the Eurosceptic Brexit campaigners who I note are shamelessly already warning of similar atrocities could take place here in the United Kingdom should we remain in the European Union.

This constant diet of violence and hatred, condemning your neighbour, despising the other, this total ramping up of fear must impact anyone suffering mental ill-health. In the context of America where anybody can buy a gun such rhetoric costs people's lives.

Yes, I blame Trump. I blame Republican Congress that is refused to implement gun control as proposed by President Obama. I blame the media for their constant demonisation of any minority group that suits their day-to-day agenda of promoting fear, ignorance and hate

Even within our own communities, we have to bear responsibility. Black and Latina Lesbian and gay people face racism and homophobia. And yet I hear repeatedly from so called "black activists" the same poisonous and rampant homophobia, the very same profound ignorance I hear from whites.

One of these African American fools suggested that its better for Black people to make and political alliance with Trump against Gays

This is an issue that we all bear responsibility for.

I've never understood how a black lesbian and gay brother and sister, who faces racism is any less in need of solidarity and support than heterosexual black people. It is beyond my frame of understanding and it is in denial of our own history that has seen black lesbian gay activists both here in the UK and in United States stand resolute in the face of racism and in support of the wider community.

I’m not interested in who you’re sleeping with; I'm interested who you're voting for. I'm interested in where you're spending your money. I'm interested if you're willing to turn up a demonstration at 9 o'clock on a cold winter's evening to support victims of police brutality.

That's my kind of politics. What is true is the overwhelming hatred and violence that permeates every aspect of our current political discourse and where weak politicians make strong talk on the issues of popular prejudice’s, vulnerable people are affected. Truth be known, we all are.

Omar’s blood thirsty carnage was in part due a lethal cocktail, of religious extremism, homophobia, mental health issues, and a country that is hell bent on allowing all its citizens to own the kind of weaponry that is usually the reserve of special forces.

Lee Jasper