The killing of nine people at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston by a young white man has thrust gun control and racism front and center once again in America. Among the many pained questions being asked is whether or not the shooting should be defined as a hate crime or an act of terror.
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South Carolina Church Massacre: Hate Crime or Terrorism?
Posted June 19th, 2015 at 12:58 pm (UTC-5)
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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.
If Clementa Pinckney Had Lived
Posted June 19th, 2015 at 8:57 am (UTC-5)
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I have no doubt that had the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney lived, he would have become known — and celebrated — across our country for his leadership, rather than sealed immortally in tragedy, one more black martyr in a line stretching back to the more than 800 slave voyages that ended at Charleston Harbor.
Obama: ‘This Is Not Normal’
“If we truly care about this… then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them.” President Barack Obama after shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado