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struggle4progress

(118,319 posts)
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 03:53 PM Jun 2015

Virginia man threatens black church one day after Charleston massacre

BY JASON SILVERSTEIN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Friday, June 19, 2015, 12:41 AM
Updated: Friday, June 19, 2015, 3:54 AM
A raving man terrified parishioners at a Virginia black church Thursday night, banging on a door and threatening to kill people inside just one day after a lunatic shot nine people dead in a Charleston black church ... Richmond cops quickly took him into custody and brought him to a local hospital, where he'll be held for 72 hours while undergoing a mental health evaluation ...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/virginia-man-menaces-black-church-charleston-shooting-article-1.2263534

From bombings to fires to shootings
Published June 18, 2015
Associated Press
... June 29, 1958: A dynamite bomb damages Bethel Baptist Church, pastored by the civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth in Birmingham, Alabama ...
Sept. 15, 1963: 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama: A bomb planted outside the sanctuary kills four black girls getting ready for Sunday morning worship ...
Summer 1964: About three dozen black churches are burned or bombed in Mississippi during the drive to register black voters called Freedom Summer ...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/18/from-bombings-to-fires-to-shootings-partial-list-attacks-on-black-churches-in/

Attacks on Black Churches
...NOV. 5, 2008
Springfield, Mass.
Macedonia Church of God in Christ
... set on fire shortly after the election of President Obama ...
JAN. 8, 1996
Knoxville, Tenn.
Inner City Baptist Church
... fire destroyed ... sanctuary of the church and racial slurs ... painted on the walls ...
FEB. 1, 1996
Louisiana
Four Churches
... within a six-mile radius ... set on fire on the anniversary of the sit-in in Greensboro NC...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/18/us/19blackchurch.html?_r=0

Thugs and Terrorists Have Attacked Black Churches for Generations
CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
JUN 18, 2015
... Congressional hearings were held in 1996 at the end of a two-year period when such arson spiked across the southeast. In South Carolina alone, black churches that suffered probable arson attacks included Mt. Zion AME Church in Williamsburg, Macedonia Baptist Church in Manning, Saint Paul Baptist Church in Lexington, Rosemary Baptist Church in Barnwell, St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, Effington Baptist Church, Mount Olivet Baptist Church, and Allen’s Chapel ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/thugs-and-terrorists-have-plagued-black-churches-for-generations/396212/

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Virginia man threatens black church one day after Charleston massacre (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2015 OP
Seriously - RW has been pushing for a 'race war' and have been preparing for many years. blm Jun 2015 #1
I seldom believe people who claim they aren't a racist, but act like one in some respect. Hoyt Jun 2015 #2
Eichmann wanted everyone to know how hard he worked to reduce the suffering of his victims struggle4progress Jun 2015 #3

blm

(113,078 posts)
1. Seriously - RW has been pushing for a 'race war' and have been preparing for many years.
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 03:57 PM
Jun 2015

When Obama took office it opened the floodgates for this tsunami of hate ignorance.

Every event like Charleston is the one they hope will be the 'trigger' that causes widespread confrontations….at long last.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026864997

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. I seldom believe people who claim they aren't a racist, but act like one in some respect.
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 04:05 PM
Jun 2015

Growing up, this guy used to claim he wasn't a racist even when they led him away after being convicted of bombing the Bethel Baptist Church. Every year he would run for some political office claiming he wasn't a racist, while saying awful things about Blacks and Jewish people in political ads.




In Georgia we had a Governor elected as late as the 1970s who came to fame for chasing Black people out of his restaurant with guns and pick handles. Nowadays, they aren't as overt, but just as bad.

struggle4progress

(118,319 posts)
3. Eichmann wanted everyone to know how hard he worked to reduce the suffering of his victims
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 04:11 PM
Jun 2015

and portrayed himself as a Zionist who had tried to encourage Jews to relocate



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