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.
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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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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.
Black Churches Burning
In the week following the murderous rampage in which nine black parishioners were shot and killed at a church in Charleston, S.C., a series of mysterious fires at African-American churches across the South has revived the specter of racist violence against a core institution of the black community.