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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Morning, Racists Burned a 7th Black Church Near Ferguson
http://usuncut.com/black-lives-matter/this-morning-racists-burned-a-7th-black-church-near-ferguson/This recent string of arsons is the second wave of black church burnings this year. The first occurred this past summer, after arsonists targeted at least six black churches in the wake of the massacre by a young white supremacist at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
You can burn down the building, but you cannot break our body, said the Rev. David Triggs, pastor at New Life Missionary Baptist Church, one of the seven churches targeted.
Arson against black churches has a long history in America, related to the central role these churches have traditionally played in black communities. Dating back to the decades before the Civil War, the black church has been both a place of worship and a site of resistance to violent oppression. From 19th-century movements to end slavery, to 20th-century opposition to Jim Crow segregation, to present day struggles like #BlackLivesMatter, the black church has been key to the long and ongoing fight for civil rights and equality for all Americans.
randys1
(16,286 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)the more i think about it the angrier I get
pintobean
(18,101 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)woman. And less than that if the missing white woman has yellow hair.
Where are all the Holy Rollers!?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)and THIS is what Black Lives Matter has been talking about...
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)It's only "terrorism" when it happens to white people
pintobean
(18,101 posts)The doors to the rectory to a Catholic church were burned, not the church itself.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fire-set-at-seventh-church-in-string-of-st-louis/article_dd2cae49-5d9a-586f-bb9a-c1ca5625c620.html
Anyone saying it's a racist, or racists, is doing nothing more than speculating. It's certainly possible, but law enforcement isn't going there.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)This one could very easily be a copycat who's seen how much attention (at least locally) the others have gotten.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)And they think it's the same arsonist.
Rex
(65,616 posts)No doubt, since he is not a huge racist.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)otherwise this would be quite a story.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Christianity" (whites only) - not according to the mass media, obviously.
Another white privilege is the great privilege of a white mass media.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Where are all the Holy Warriors? Where are the Oath Keepers? White mass media...indeed.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)investigators would make some progress. But nooooo.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)Texas Blues
(55 posts)The fact an African American individual may be charged with this (and it's only alleged at this point, remember that!) should not make us feel any less guilty of the shame, oppression, and utter degradation that was committed by whites on African Americans for 500 years.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)I'm in no way responsible those church fires, or any psychological problems the arsonist may have.