Why The Media Refuse To Connect Those Church Fires With Race (White privilege alert!)

TPM Cafe ^ | July 13, 2015 | Carolyn J. Davis

[Zakeet]

“When it comes to church burnings, many African Americans see the difference between an official hate crime and an act of ‘vandalism’ as an issue of semantics, especially given the long, painful history of racists intentionally—and largely independently—setting fire to black churches all over the country,” – Jack Jenkins, ThinkProgress

In recent weeks, investigators have been examining the circumstances surrounding a series of fires at predominantly black, southern churches. While some of the more recent fires were ruled accidental, authorities found evidence for arson in at least three cases. Burning black churches has a long, well-documented history as a white tactic for intimidation, particularly in the days of the Civil Rights Movement. More recently, a mid-1990s series of racially-motivated church burnings prompted the 1996 Church Arson Prevention Act.

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White supremacists do the dirty work, but repressive silence and willful misremembering allow racism to continue to flourish. Beginning to confront white privilege means realizing that it implicates every white person—not just the violent outliers. Confronting white privilege means submitting to the truths carried in black memories of violence. Lynchings, church burnings, Jim Crow, and the everyday macro- and micro-aggressions shaping black life have much to do with how we live and move in this world as well. For white people, the violent experience of black oppression is also the history of our privilege, and we must start to acknowledge it as such.

[sauropod]

Hey Carolyn, I have an official pardon from Walter E. Williams for my white guilt.

Go microagression your pseudo aggrieved sense of white guilt right outta here!

I reject completely what you are saying.

[sergeantdave]

Thanks for a peek into the mind of a self-hating psychopath. She must stick an eggbeater in her ear every morning and scramble her ape brain.

[Mastador1]

Funny, seems to me that out of that rash of fires only one was attributed to arson, and damn me for saying it, I would bet on a member of the church being responsible.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Black Entitlement - when a black church burns, it's the fault of some white guy whether he's to blame or not, because one of those black's great-great-great-great grandfathers might have been a slave.....

Makes me even more glad that I left the Methodist church twenty years ago.....

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I’ve never hated black people.....but I’m learning to.

[Interesting Times]

Thanks. The leftists are nothing if not repetitive.