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- ‘the Perpetrator Has Been Arrested, But The Killer Is Still At Large’
by Amy Goodmansource truthdig The massacre of nine African-American worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., has sent shock waves through the nation and could well blow the roof off the Confederacy. Dylann Storm...
- Political Roots Of The Massacre In Charleston
By Barry Sheppardsource Green Left The mass murder of nine African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina by a white racist has been widely denounced. To understand this hate crime it has to be put into the broader political context. The killer, Dylann...
- The Us System Isn't Broken, It's Racist By Design
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylorsource socialistworker LESS THAN a month before Mike Brown became an international symbol of police violence and racism in American law enforcement, Eric Garner was choked to death in broad daylight on a sidewalk on Staten...
- Black Friday Riff
By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Source Axis of Logic The day after quietly giving thanks,the mad dash getting stuff!Key word “sale” triggeringthe Pavlovian Pamplona,running of the bull market. In economic jargonblack is good,red is bad,red ink...
- Night Of Pain — Night Of Rage By Mumia Abu Jamal
Source: workers worldOunce again, a Black unarmend youth has been killed by a cop And while the facts surrounding the shooting are presently unclear, what is clear is that a cop shot 18-year-old Michael Brown eight times. According to at least...
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The Incubus of Racism - Charleston and the American Soul
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
source Counterpunch
A young white man, barely at the age of his majority, walks into Charleston’s most storied Black church and, before he leaves, a new history is written.
Attending the Wednesday night Bible study, he sits for nearly an hour, but his mind isn’t on the life of Jesus nor his disciples. It’s on murder, mass murder. When the door shuts behind him, nine Black souls, elders mostly, had been slain, Bibles in hand.
The man, or boy more than man really, hadn’t come to learn about religion, for he had a belief, white supremacy, or the profound hatred of Black people.
White supremacy is the mother’s milk of Charleston, of South Carolina, of the South, of America. For surely as slavery funded and built America, the underlying principle was the devaluation, exploitation, and oppression of Black life. It’s the only thing that makes the church massacre in
Charleston even remotely intelligible.
Nine Black people were sacrificed to the blind idol of white supremacy for the same reason that thousands of Black men and women were lynched on American elms and pines: as sacrifices to an idea, to perpetuate a system of economic injustice.
Dylann Roof, the 21 year old accused of this massacre, had no friends to speak of, no place to stay other than an associate’s couch, no job, and a tenuous relationship with his parents. Isolated, alienated, alone in the world, his sole remaining possession was his whiteness, the only thing that gave his existence meaning. That was the energy that fueled the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina.
It now sits like an incubus in the American soul, seething hatred and fear, waiting for more Black lives to consume.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an activist, author and radio journalist. In 1981 he was shot, beaten and arrested by white Philadelphia police officers who accused him a shooting a fellow officer, a charge Abu Jamal has denied.
- ‘the Perpetrator Has Been Arrested, But The Killer Is Still At Large’
by Amy Goodmansource truthdig The massacre of nine African-American worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., has sent shock waves through the nation and could well blow the roof off the Confederacy. Dylann Storm...
- Political Roots Of The Massacre In Charleston
By Barry Sheppardsource Green Left The mass murder of nine African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina by a white racist has been widely denounced. To understand this hate crime it has to be put into the broader political context. The killer, Dylann...
- The Us System Isn't Broken, It's Racist By Design
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylorsource socialistworker LESS THAN a month before Mike Brown became an international symbol of police violence and racism in American law enforcement, Eric Garner was choked to death in broad daylight on a sidewalk on Staten...
- Black Friday Riff
By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Source Axis of Logic The day after quietly giving thanks,the mad dash getting stuff!Key word “sale” triggeringthe Pavlovian Pamplona,running of the bull market. In economic jargonblack is good,red is bad,red ink...
- Night Of Pain — Night Of Rage By Mumia Abu Jamal
Source: workers worldOunce again, a Black unarmend youth has been killed by a cop And while the facts surrounding the shooting are presently unclear, what is clear is that a cop shot 18-year-old Michael Brown eight times. According to at least...