Posted on 06/24/2015 5:27:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In so many ways, the story of Dylann Roof, the shooting suspect who allegedly killed nine people in an historic South Carolina black church, is a parallel to the story of America itself.
Who, at this point, can feign surprise at this latest massacre when it sits at the nexus of so much that is familiar and perfectly in line with the U.S. that we know? We are a country where mass shootings are weekly news, where gun violence is a fact of daily life, where there is a legacy of terror against black people and communities, where white racists have long targeted black churches, where African-American life is so devalued it can be taken with impunity.
If you are shocked by any aspect of Roof’s story so far—including that he is being described in news outlets as “quiet and soft-spoken” instead of as a terrorist—you are not only willingly obtuse but complicit in his crime. There is a single conclusion to draw in this moment, and it is that we are here again, because this is exactly who we are.
It seems likely to me that Roof had some sense of this, that his own knowledge and recognition of history helped guide him toward committing this horrific crime. Emanuel African Methodist Church is one of the oldest houses of worship in the South, and it has long served—like the institution of the African-American church itself in this country—as a sanctuary and safe haven for black people from white racism. Though the roots of the church stretch back to 1787, its foundation is more firmly pinned to 1816....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Hey Kali, you big coward. I bet you need a keyboard and avatar just to find the courage to stand up and walk each day.
Behind Dylann Roof’s race war: The highly motivated secret white supremacy movement working toward “the battle of Armageddon”
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/24/behind_dylann_roofs_race_war_the_highly_motivated_secret_white_supremacy_movement_working_toward_the_battle_of_armageddon/
Rampage shootings are not a weekly event.
Stalinists lie. ALWAYS
The real race war is the criminal black guerrilla war against white people and against anyone or anything who represents civilization.
There’s a powerful white Democrat Senator who, according to a schoolmate who didn’t approve, was part of a bunch of bullies who made a game of harassing randomly selected blacks in East St. Louis back when he was a teenage meatpacker. But that would probably be just a wee bit shy of your half century cutoff.
Okay, I give up. Why are you posting to me more neo-Nazi crap from some bitch at Salon?
To show you that the article I posted isn’t the worst they can do.
10-4, 2ndDivVet.
Liberal lunacy:
2001 - Muslim jihadists kill thousands in NYC, but “you can’t blame all Muslims for the actions of a few”.
2015 - Deranged white punk kills nine in Charleston and “all whites are to blame.”
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