White man convicted over black church fire to protest Obama win

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A white man was convicted on Thursday of setting fire to a mostly black church in November 2008 to protest Barack Obama's election as the nation's first black president.

The arson fire on November 5, 2008, just hours after election results were announced, destroyed the almost-completed Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Springfield, Massachusetts, about 90 miles west of Boston. Several firefighters were slightly injured battling the flames.

Prosecutors argued that Michael Jacques, 26, and two white friends were motivated by racial resentment when they doused the building with gasoline and torched it.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-church-fire-obama-idUSTRE73D8ID20110414?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Remind me where we are and what year this is??

Seriously, people.

[BlueJazz]

2. What the hell would a Church have anything to do with Obama getting elected??

I mean..these stupid bastards don't even know how to do a decent riot.

[Ian David]

7. It was a Black church, and Obama was Black. n/t

[BlueJazz]

8. Well...sure but Black people also go other places like meeting halls or..

....restaurants.
If you're going to protest something don't piss off 90 percent of the population while you're doing it.

[fascisthunter]

3. let me guess... he voted for republicans

boy, your political party should be sooo proud to show so much intolerance to people of another race. What a bunch of intolerable and frightened bunch of wimps!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Oh that silly Glenn Beck

[Ian David]

5. More TeaTerror

See: http://tinyurl.com/TeaTerror2

[thelordofhell]

6. What's his freeper name?

[freshwest]

9. Unable to learn in the free world, his next school will be the big house.

[intheflow]

10. My hometown. :(

I live in Denver now, and when I tell people that the only black institution that was torched that night was in my hometown, they always answer, "But you're from Massachusetts!" Sadly, racism knows no geographic boundaries. :(