As the mourning continues for the nine African Americans killed execution-style by a young white man, sentiment is growing for the removal of the Confederate flag in South Carolina, site of the massacre. The flag is a relic of the U.S. Civil War, fought 150 years ago over the issue of the enslavement of black people. It may be appropriate that the state in which the Civil War’s first shots were fired is the starting ground for the movement to take the Confederate flag down.
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Focus of South Carolina Massacre Turns to Confederate Flag
Posted June 23rd, 2015 at 1:50 pm (UTC-5)
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An Uncomfortable, Yet Unavoidable, Debate
Posted June 22nd, 2015 at 3:04 pm (UTC-5)
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With the shooting of nine African Americans by Dylann Roof, an avowed white supremacist, the nation’s unresolved and tormented history of racism has emerged. It remains a controversial hot-button topic: painful, hard to talk about and even harder to stop. But observers are increasingly calling for a movement to banish it.
Let’s Call Charleston Shooting What It Was: A Terrorist Attack
Posted June 19th, 2015 at 10:16 am (UTC-5)
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It’s become quite the national pastime (centuries in the making, in fact) that when violent, racially motivated and genocidal-like tragedies befall African Americans, the reflex is to avoid calling it what it is: domestic terrorism.
American Terrorism
Posted June 19th, 2015 at 9:47 am (UTC-5)
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The racially-motivated mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina—one of the worst U.S. domestic terror attacks in years—serves as a terrible reminder that not all terrorists carry a black flag.