A National Shame

All the news headline are about the Supreme Court decisions last week, but hidden on the inside pages is a national disgrace.

Six predominately black southern churches burn within a week with arson suspected in at least three
Washington Post
By Lindsey Bever
June 29, 2015

In the week after nine people were shot dead at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina, six churches with predominately black congregations in five southern states have burned. Three of them were being investigated as arson.

The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are working with local authorities to find those who set them.

“They’re being investigated to determine who is responsible and what motives are behind them,” FBI spokesperson Paul Bresson told BuzzFeed News. “I’m not sure there is any reason to link them together at this point.”
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In the week after nine people were shot dead at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina, six churches with predominately black congregations in five southern states have burned. Three of them were being investigated as arson.

The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are working with local authorities to find those who set them.

“They’re being investigated to determine who is responsible and what motives are behind them,” FBI spokesperson Paul Bresson told BuzzFeed News. “I’m not sure there is any reason to link them together at this point.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center reported that,

The series of fires – some of them suspicious and possible hate crimes — came in the week following a murderous rampage by a white supremacist who shot and killed nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C.

The fires also occurred at a time when there is increasing public pressure to remove the Confederate flag – one of the last hallmarks of white superiority — from government buildings and public places as well as banning assorted Confederate flag merchandise sold in retails stores and online.

Those who are old enough to remember the civil rights marches from the fifties and sixties will remember the church fire and murders from that era and now they are returning.

When the hate mongers feel that are being backed into a corner they strike back the only way they know how, with murder and arson.

Update 1:00 PM
Warning strong language.

Racism is not dead in America, it has always been here.