President Obama Delivers Eulogy At Funeral For Senator Pinckney
Obama eulogizes pastor in Charleston shooting. Obama sings Amazing Grace at funeral of Charleston shooting victim Clementa Pinckney. Washington (CNN) Preside... [FULL SPEECH]
Obama sings Amazing Grace in Clementa Pinckney.
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COLUMBIA, S.C., July 10 (Reuters) - The Confederate battle flag, a symbol of both racism and southern pride, was removed on Friday from the South Carolina state Capitol grounds after the Civil War banner fell from favor since the slaying of nine black churchgoers in June.
The rebel flag, raised on state grounds more than 50 years ago at the height of the U.S. civil rights movement, was taken down just after 10 a.m. ET.
It will be moved to the "relic room" of a military museum in the state capital of Columbia to reside with other artifacts carried by southern Confederate soldiers 150 years ago.
Descendant of Jefferson Davis Make Emotional Plea to Remove Confederate Flag
Little Rock store sells out of Confederate flag items - KTHV
Kerry McCoy is owner of Arkansas Flag and Banner
maintains that the flag is part of her heritage yet she also president
of a black heritage foundation Dreamland Ballroom
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THV11 of Little Rock aired and story that was totally
not news nor news worthy. Arkansas Flag and Banner - Sales of
Confederate Rebel Flag increase 1600% Following Charleston Church
Shooting. Kerry McCoy is owner of Arkansas Flag and Banner
maintains that the flag is part of her heritage yet she also president
of a black heritage foundation Dreamland Ballroom
which is housed in same building as her store selling confederate merchandise. What a conflict of interest. Dale Charles President of NAACP held a news conference protesting the confederate merchandise being sold. Kerry McCoy, is Founder of Dreamland Ballroom and have received tens of thousand of dollars for the preservation of The Black Cultural Taborian Hall Dreamland Ballroom. Are the funds for the Dreamland Ballroom going to promote her racist confederate cultural center? Is she running a scam on the black community? It appears that the only thing being preserve by the Dreamland money is the Confederate Cultural Center.
Dreamland Ballroom was a proud host to musical greats such as:
♦ Ray Charles♦ Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra♦ B. B. King, The Blues Boy♦ Lloyd Armon and Swingsters♦ Duke Ellington♦ Jimmy Witherspoon♦ Blind Al Hibbler♦ Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzie Gillespie♦ Etta “Wallflower” James
♦ "Tear Drop Girl" Ruth Brown♦ Nat “King” Cole and His Trio
♦ Louis Jordan.
Members of the Ku Klux Klan have announced plans to rally next month in South Carolina in support of the Confederate flag.
State officials confirmed to The Washington Post that the Loyal White Knights chapter of the KKK got permission to meet at the statehouse in Columbia on July 18. The group's website says it is the largest Klan in America.
Robert Jones, a "grand dragon" for the chapter, told Charleston-area newspaper The Post and Courier that Roof is a "young warrior."
"If you're white and proud, join the crowd," the message says of the planned rally. "Save our land, join the Klan."
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which is housed in same building as her store selling confederate merchandise. What a conflict of interest. Dale Charles President of NAACP held a news conference protesting the confederate merchandise being sold. Kerry McCoy, is Founder of Dreamland Ballroom and have received tens of thousand of dollars for the preservation of The Black Cultural Taborian Hall Dreamland Ballroom. Are the funds for the Dreamland Ballroom going to promote her racist confederate cultural center? Is she running a scam on the black community? It appears that the only thing being preserve by the Dreamland money is the Confederate Cultural Center.
Dreamland Ballroom was a proud host to musical greats such as:
♦ Ray Charles♦ Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra♦ B. B. King, The Blues Boy♦ Lloyd Armon and Swingsters♦ Duke Ellington♦ Jimmy Witherspoon♦ Blind Al Hibbler♦ Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzie Gillespie♦ Etta “Wallflower” James
♦ "Tear Drop Girl" Ruth Brown♦ Nat “King” Cole and His Trio
♦ Louis Jordan.
NAACP asks local flag store to stop selling Confederate ...
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Little Rock NAACP President Dale Charles |
A flag is, of course, just a piece of cloth. We are the ones who turn it into something more than cotton or polyester. Since the June 18 massacre at Charleston's historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina, however, America has been doing some soul searching over the Confederate flag, the most enduring symbol of the Confederacy.
Soon after the arrest of the alleged killer, 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Storm Roof, a website was found featuring a racist manifesto and multiple photos of Roof posing with his pistol and the Confederate battle flag. Within the week, Alabama and other Southern states had furled the Confederate flags that flew over their Capitol grounds, and giant retailers like Walmart, Amazon and eBay said they would no longer sell items bearing the well-known image. In Arkansas, there is a growing call to remove the fourth and highest star in the center of the Arkansas state flag, which represents our membership in the Confederacy.
In Central Arkansas, for now, a good bit of the controversy over the Confederate flag seems to have settled on the doorstep of Little Rock's Arkansas Flag and Banner. The business is located at 800 W. Ninth St. in Taborian Hall, whose storied Dreamland Ballroom once hosted some of America's greatest African-American entertainers before urban renewal efforts and the construction of Interstate 630 destroyed most of the city's black business district along Ninth. The Arkansas chapter of the NAACP held a protest there over the weekend, demanding that Arkansas Flag and Banner stop selling the flag.
Dale Charles, the president of the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP, said the Confederate battle flag symbolized the fight to preserve slavery and should be consigned to the museums. "If you know [slavery was] wrong," Charles said, "why would you want to continue to keep that as the symbol of your history? You should be ashamed of it and try to get rid of it."read morehttp://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/the-banned-old-flag/Content?oid=3932366
Confederate flag-waving protesters greet Obama in Oklahoma City (VIDEO)
President Obama was greeted by people waving Confederate flags as he arrived at his hotel in Oklahoma City Wednesday night.
In a crowd of several dozen people, about 10 of them waved Confederate
flags as the president's motorcade arrived at his hotel. One person also
waved a U.S. flag.
There were also some fans of the president standing in the crowd, including one person holding a sign expressing love for Obama.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about whether the president saw the Confederate flag.
The incident comes one week after the Confederate flag was removed from
the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol in Columbia when Gov. Nikki Haley
signed legislation to remove the controversial banner. The campaign for
the flag's removal stemmed from the apparent racially motivated slaying
of nine African-Americans inside a historic Charleston church.
The president is on a two-day trip to Oklahoma where today he will visit
the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution. This will be the first
time a sitting president goes inside a federal prison and is part of
Obama's push to overhaul the criminal justice system.
The president Wednesday spoke in Durant, Oklahoma, where he talked about expanding broadband access to low-income communities.
KKK, Black Justice group clash in SC capitol -.
KKK Rally Meet opposition from Blacks fr Justice
Black Educators for Justice, based in Jacksonville, Florida, held its rally Saturday on the north side of the Statehouse, where the Confederate flag was removed earlier this month. Later, the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held a rally on the opposite side of the building to protest the flag's removal. The S.C. Department of Public Safety estimated the crowd at approximately 2,000. Spokeswoman Sherri Iacobelli said five people were arrested and 23 people needed medical attention. A statement from Richland County Emergency Service said many of the 23 were treated for heat, but no specific number was given.
State officials confirmed to The Washington Post that the Loyal White Knights chapter of the KKK got permission to meet at the statehouse in Columbia on July 18. The group's website says it is the largest Klan in America.
Robert Jones, a "grand dragon" for the chapter, told Charleston-area newspaper The Post and Courier that Roof is a "young warrior."
"If you're white and proud, join the crowd," the message says of the planned rally. "Save our land, join the Klan."
White Suspect... Sat In Prayer Meeting For Nearly An Hour Before Opening Fire... Federal Hate Crime Investigation... Horror At Historic Black Church... 'Killed Because They Were Black'...
Pinckney lies in state as Confederate flag flies...
COLUMBIA, S.C., June 24 (UPI) -- The
coffin of Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator and pastor
of a church where he and eight others were shot, arrived Wednesday at
the state house where a much-debated Confederate flag still flies.A horse-drawn caisson brought Pinckney's body
to the South Carolina State House, where he was scheduled to lie in
state for four hours. When the coffin arrived, the Confederate flag was
flying as part of a Civil War memorial on the state house grounds.
That particular Confederate flag -- and indeed the Confederate emblem in general -- has faced much backlash in the wake of the racially motivated shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, which left nine people dead.
Images spread of the alleged shooter posing next to Confederate flags, which are often associated with white supremacist groups.
Some argued flying the Confederate flag at the South Carolina State House while Pinckney lies in state is offensive.
As
shown on MSNBC Wednesday night, a local Charleston reporter asked a
group of African-American activists, community leaders what the black community could do to prevent events like the mass shooting at Emanuel Baptist. This bizarre moment continued
with the reporter seemingly rejecting the obvious–that racism is an
obvious element in the white-on-black murders committed at Emanuel
Baptist–and doubling down by suggesting that the black community gives
comfort to “snitches,” thus wondering if black folks will in fact turn
in a white domestic terrorist who had killed at least nine people.
The
headline on the breaking news report about the Charleston shooting was
an additional example of how the White Racial Frame dominates news
coverage. MSNBC’s screen read “Police searching for 21-year-old
suspect.” He was not described as “white”: the American news media is
much more likely to racially mark black and brown suspects in crimes,
and to include their racial description (or religious/ethnic as in
the ubiquitous ”Arab” or “Muslim” “terrorist.”
To watch such a series of questions being asked
to a community that only several hours ago suffered a viciously violent
terrorist attack is wholly unbelievable. Yet somehow black Americans are
so disrespected, derided and associated with criminality that they are
responsible for their own murders by a white domestic terrorist.
White
right-wing domestic terrorism is one of the greatest threats to public
safety and security in post 9/11 United States of America. Such a
plain-spoken fact is verboten in mainstream American public discourse.
As
such, there are several phrases and words that are likely to not be
used by the corporate news media in the discussions of the Charleston
mass murders at the Emanuel Baptist Church.
They include:
1.
What is radicalizing white men to commit such acts of domestic
terrorism and mass shootings? Are Fox News and the right-wing media
encouraging violence?
2. Is something wrong with the white family? Why are their sons and men so violent?
3. What should law enforcement and white politicians do about white crime?
4. Is the Charleston mass shooting just one more sign that America needs sensible and reasonable gun control policies?
5. Where are the white fathers in the white home?
6. When will white leadership step up and stop white right-wing domestic terrorism?
7. Is White American culture pathological? Why is White America so violent?
8.
Are there appropriate role models for white men and boys? Could better
role models and mentoring help to prevent white men and boys from
committing mass shootings and being seduced by right-wing domestic
terrorism?
Once and again, white privilege is the power to be the
ultimate individual where one’s actions and behavior rarely if ever
reflects on the collective character of white people en masse. By
comparison, Black and brown Americans, Muslims, Arabs and the Other more
generally are routinely subjected to group punishment and demonization.
White
Americans will not have to look in the mirror and ask, “what does it
feel like to be a problem.” In the aftermath of recurring mass shooting
events, and right-wing domestic terrorism, it is essential that they
start to practice such acts of introspection in the interest of the
Common Good.
Crazed racist shooter Dylann Storm Roof was given a gun this year from his father for his birthday in April. ... FOX Nation; The Blaze; Rush Limbaugh; Laura Ingraham
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Rev. Clementa Pinckney
Pinckney, 41, was a father to two children, Eliana and Malana, according to the Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church website. He received his first appointment as a pastor
at age 18. He was first elected to the state's House of Representatives
in 1996 at age 23, and in 2000 he was elected to the state Senate.
"Senator Clementa C. Pinckney was a leader in the Senate of South
Carolina, a strong advocate for his constituents, a great pastor and
community leader, but most importantly, a cherished and loved husband,
father and son," South Carolina Sen. Hugh Leatherman said in a statement
today.
Rev. Sharonda Singleton
The Rev. Sharonda Singleton, 45, one of the handful of ministerial staff of Emanuel AME Church, was killed Wednesday night.
She was reportedly a speech therapist and girls’ track and field coach at Goose Creek High School.
“As a teacher and a coach, she was very professional in everything she
did,” former Goose Creek athletic director Chuck Reedy told The Post and Courier. “She was an excellent role model for all of our students, in the way she carried herself. She was just first class.”
Her son Chris Singleton participated in vigils Thursday, reflecting on his mother's life.
“My Mom was a God-fearing woman, and she loved everybody with all her
heart, and to the other families, I’m sorry about what happened,”
Singleton said. “Obviously you guys are as devastated as we are, but I
know for a fact that things will get better as time goes on.”
Chris Singleton, who plays baseball at Charleston Southern University, said he was thinking about his mother’s smile.
“I just say, ‘Love is always stronger than hate,’ so if we would just
love the way my mom would, then hate won't be anywhere close to what
love is,” he said.
Myra Thompson
Another woman, named Myra Thompson, 59, was killed at the church, where a bible study group was meeting Wednesday night.
Tywanza Sanders
Tywanza Sanders, 26, a 2014 graduate of Allen University's division of
business administration in Columbia, South Carolina, also died.
"He was a quiet, well-known student who was committed to his education,"
according to a statement from Allen University, a historically Black
college located in Columbia, South Carolina.
"He presented a warm and helpful spirit as he interacted with his
colleagues. Mr. Sanders was participating in the Bible Study session at
Mother Emanuel church at the time of the shooting."
Ethel Lee Lance
Ethel Lee Lance, 70, a sexton at the church, was also killed in the shooting.
"Granny was the heart of the family," her grandson Jon Quil Lance told The Post and Courier outside Medical University Hospital.
She had worked at the church for more than 30 years, he told the newspaper.
“She’s a Christian, hardworking; I could call my granny for anything. I don’t have anyone else like that," he said.
Cynthia Hurd
Cynthia Hurd, 54, was a 31-year employee of the Charleston County Public
Library, according to its Facebook page. The St. Andrews Regional
Manager "dedicated her life to serving and improving the lives of
others," the library stated. To honor Hurd and the others killed, the
Charleston County Public Library's 16 locations are closed today.
Rev. Daniel L. Simmons Sr.
The Rev. Daniel L. Simmons Sr., 74, a retired pastor from another church in Charleston, died in the shooting.
Simmons attended Emanuel AME Church every Sunday for services and
Wednesdays for bible study, his daughter-in-law, Arcelia Simmons of
Newport News, Virginia, said.
Simmons was the only victim who did not die at the church but in the hospital's operating room.
Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor
The Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49, also died in the shooting.
Susie Jackson
Susie Jackson, 87, was the oldest victim of the church shooting.
Charleston Prayer Meeting Massacre Reprint from Solon The historic African-American Emanuel AME Methodist Church was assaulted by at least one white gunman on Wednesday evening in Charleston, South Carolina. At least nine people have been confirmed dead. The story is still developing. At present, Charleston authorities are reporting that this mass shooting and likely right-wing domestic terrorist assault is a hate crime. While this horrific event is one more murderous and racist blow to the African-American community in Charleston–the killing of Walter Scott by a white thug cop being the most high-profile and recent offense–the reporting on the mass shooting at Emanuel Baptist is an additional affront via the White Racial Frame as practiced by the mainstream news media.
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| (Facebook) A photo of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof wears Rhodesian and South African Apartheid flag patches. Both of these flags represent defunct African governments whose regimes were controlled by white minorities. Both countries had racial segregation policies, and as a result they are admired by many American white supremacists. |
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COLUMBIA - Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old suspect in the killing of 9 people in an historic black church in downtown Charleston, was taken into custody Thursday in Shelby, N.C., partner station WLTX reported, citing an unidentified law enforcement source.
Why we must call Dylann Roof a terrorist
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Kurtis Cook, Texas Volunteer Firefighter, Fired After Writing That Dylann Roof 'Needs To Be Praised'
GOING VIRAL: TX firefighter fired after #CharlestonShooting post #KurtisCook #CharlestonCook's post saying Roof "needs to be praised for the good deed" led to an outcry on social media. By Friday morning, the department -- located about an hour southeast of Dallas -- wrote on Facebook that it had launched an investigation. Within an hour, the department wrote a followup post saying Cook had been terminated and banned from all department property.
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Kurtis Cook is voicing the views of Albert Pike and so many Scottish Rite Freemasons.
The crime that took place at the Emanuel AME was an assassination of Senator Pinckney and his church members were collateral damage. Dylann Roof was a hired assassin. The assassination was a masonic hit. The Mother Supreme Council of the World of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry," was founded in Charleston South Carolina. Cook racist views are the same as the KKK. The KKK was founded by Albert Pike who was head of the Scottish Rite Freemason in Charleston. Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell Jr., as well as the other possible judges will be high degree Scottish Rite Masons. A Mason can not pass judgement on another Freemason nor his son. Dylann Roof father Franklin Roof who brought Dylann the gun used to assassinate Senator Pinckney is a Scottish Rite mason. Real justice can not be obtain in South Carolina for the assassination of Sen. Pinckney and the murder of the other eight members of Emanuel AME church. Masonry runs deep South Carolina in both the black and white community.
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Well, it's better that these guys speak up and get removed instead of keeping quite and not knowing they exist. Volunteer firefighter is a rather trivial position, other offices of Government and authority on the other hand...About Albert Pike - Inicio
. Masonic handbook known as the Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish ... Supreme Council in Charleston, South Carolina ...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Council,...Rite_(Southern...CachedThe first philosophical document of the Mother Supreme Council of the World was "Morals and Dogma of ... The Supreme Council was founded in Charleston, South Carolina ...
S.C. Masonic judge urges support for Dylann Roof’s family ...
A South Carolina judge opened the Friday hearing for racist mass murderer Dylann Roof with a tone-deaf statement urging the community to rally around the killer’s family. “We have victims — nine of them. But we also have victims on the other side,” Charleston County Magistrate James “Skip” Gosnell, Jr. announced in the courtroom packed with the victims’ anguished relatives.
A 33rd degree Mason, he was one of the founding fathers, and head of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, being the Grand Commander of North American Freemasonry from 1859 and retained that position until his death in 1891. In 1869, he was a top leader in the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Pike was said to be a Satanist, who indulged in the occult, and he apparently possessed a bracelet which he used to summon Lucifer, with whom he had constant communication. He was the Grand Master of a Luciferian group known as the Order of the Palladium (or Sovereign Council of Wisdom), which had been founded in Paris in 1737. Palladism had been brought to Greece from Egypt by Pythagoras in the fifth century, and it was this cult of Satan that was introduced to the inner circle of the Masonic lodges. It was aligned with the Palladium of the Templars. In 1801, Issac Long, a Jew, brought a statue of Baphomet (Satan) to Charleston, South Carolina, where he helped to establish the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Long apparently chose Charleston because it was geographically located on the 33rd parallel of latitude (incidentally, so is Baghdad), and this council is considered to be the Mother Supreme Council of all Masonic Lodges of the World.
Why Albert Pike's Statue Must Fall - The Scottish...
In the heart of Washington, D.C., there is a large statue and monument honoring the most important founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Inscribed on the base of the statue are the words, ``poet''--the terrorist anthem of the KKK was his most famous literary work--and ``jurist''--he was called the KKK's chief judiciary officer, and reputedly wrote the organization manual for the terrorist anti-black movement after the U.S. Civil War. The immense, bearded figure of Confederate General Albert Pike is looming over a public square in the nation's capital. Why has it never been pulled down in that predominantly black city? The statue is a tribute to the influence of Pike's organization. It has power in the Executive Branch, and the Congress, and it is decisive in the courts. It has great power in al branches of law enforcement and the military. Do I mean that the Ku Klux Klan has such sway over the government? No, I'm speaking here of the ``Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction,'' of which Pike was the chief, or ``Sovereign Grand Commander.'' The Ku Klux Klan, the Southern Confederacy, and the pre-Civil War secession movement were a single, continuous project, with Pike's ``Scottish Rite'' at its center. Though the Confederacy was defeated, this project lives on today, and now dominates U.S. political life.
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A Statue of Confederate General Offends Many in...
www.bet.com/news/national/photos/2013/12/standing-still...A Statue of Confederate General Offends Many in D.C. Albert Pike is the only Confederate general with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C. It has been the target of ...
Black Churches In Four States Have Been Destroyed By Fire In The Past Week
Another Southern Black Church Burns
Mount Zion AME had previously been burned down by the KKK in 1995, according to the Post and Courier, who was first to report the blaze on Tuesday night. Two former members of the KKK admitted to starting the fire in 1995. Last week, the Los Angeles Times featured the church in a story chronicling years of black churches being targeted. The church gained further notoriety when former President Bill Clinton attended a dedication of the new church in 1996.
There has been a rash of fires at predominantly black churches in the weeks following the June 17 massacre in Charleston. In the past two weeks, six of those fires occurred in Southern states, USA Today noted. Of these, three are confirmed as arson. Federal officials are looking into whether some of the cases may be hate crimes.
Charleston Church Massacre Happened In Gun-Free Zone.-
NRA official blames pastor for church massacre |...
nypost.com/2015/06/19/nra-official-blames-pastor-for...CachedJun 18, 2015 • An NRA official blames the massacre at a South Carolina church on the slain pastor’s anti-gun position. Charles Cotton, a board member with the gun .
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Crazed Racist Dylann Storm Roof Was Given Gun as...
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The racist flags on Dylann Roof's jacket,...
www.vox.com/.../8806633/charleston-shooter-flags-dylann-roofCachedJun 17, 2015 • The racist flags on Dylann Roof's jacket, explained. ... shows him wearing a jacket with the flags of two avowedly racist nations. .
Dylann Storm Roof Identified As Charleston Shooting Suspect:
The man suspected of opening fire in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday night, killing nine people, has been identified as 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, an FBI spokeswoman told The Post and Courier. Denise Taiste, the FBI spokeswoman, confirmed Roof's identity to the paper Thursday morning and described him as a resident of the Columbia area. He remains at large.
The Confederate Flag Is a Racist Symbol of a Failed Rebellion. It's Not a Debate.
How White Confederates Used The Bible To Justify Slavery
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The Confederacy was the most vile and harmful political invention in United States history. It was founded on the explicit principle that slavery is the "natural and normal condition" of black people, and that they should be ruthlessly exploited to the benefit of their white masters. More Americans died in the bloodletting that followed than in World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined.
BAMA TOO!
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Obama: Confederate Flag Belongs In A Museum
Take Down the Confederate Flag—Now
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/take-down-the-confederate-flag-now/396290/Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth...This moral truth—“that the negro is not equal to the white man”—is exactly what animated Dylann Roof. More than any individual actor, in recent history, Roof honored his flag in exactly the manner it always demanded—with human sacrifice.
"TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN": Right or wrong. God judge me, not man. For be my motive good or bad, of one thing I am sure, the lasting condemnation of the North. I love peace more than life. Have loved the Union beyond expression. For four years have I waited, hoped and prayed for the dark clouds to break, and for a restoration of our former sunshine. To wait longer would be a crime. All hope for peace is dead. My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. God's will be done. I go to see and share the bitter end…. I have ever held the South were right. The very nomination of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, four years ago, spoke plainly, war—war upon Southern rights and institutions…. This country was formed for the white, not for the black man. And looking upon African Slavery from the same stand-point held by the noble framers of our constitution. I for one, have ever considered if one of the greatest blessings (both for themselves and us,) that God has ever bestowed upon a favored nation. Witness heretofore our wealth and power; witness their elevation and enlightenment above their race elsewhere. I have lived among it most of my life, and have seen less harsh treatment from master to man than I have beheld in the North from father to son. Yet, Heaven knows, no one would be willing to do more for the negro race than I, could I but see a way to still better their condition.By 1865, the Civil War had morphed into a war against slavery—the “cornerstone” of Confederate society. Booth absorbed his lesson too well. He did not violate some implicit rule of Confederate chivalry or politesse. He accurately interpreted the cause of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, men who were too weak to truthfully address that cause’s natural end. Moral cowardice requires choice and action. It demands that its adherents repeatedly look away, that they favor the fanciful over the plain, myth over history, the dream over the real. Here is another choice. Take down the flag. Take it down now. Put it in a museum. Inscribe beneath it the years 1861-2015. Move forward. Abandon this charlatanism. Drive out this cult of death and chains. Save your lovely souls. Move forward. Do it now.
Four Republican hopefuls return money after 'Dylann Roof manifesto' revelation
Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum and 18 others to
give up cash from leader of group that may have influenced Charleston
church gunman
Gov. Haley orders flags at half- staff for 9 days...
Charleston Church Shooting Photos Show Aftermath Of Deadly Crime
Photos taken after Wednesday night's deadly shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, show the heartbreak and devastation of community members. Authorities are searching for the gunman, who killed nine people and injured three. The FBI told the Post and Courier that the suspect in the shooting is 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof. See photos of grieving residents and pictures of the manhunt in the slideshow and get the latest updates from our liveblog, below.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Worshippers embrace following a group prayer across the street from the scene of the shooting. A white man opened fire during a prayer meeting inside the historic black church, killing multiple people, including the pastor, in an assault that authorities described as a hate crime.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A distraught man is comforted as a group of concerned people arrive inquiring about the shooting.Matthew Fortner / The Post And Courier / AP
Charleston police officers search for a shooting suspect outside the Emanuel AME Church.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lisa Doctor joins a prayer circle early Thursday, June 18, 2015, down the street from Emanuel following the shooting.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Worshippers gather to pray in a hotel parking lot across the street from the scene of the attack.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Worshippers gather to pray down the street from the Emanuel church.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police close off a section of Calhoun Street near the church.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charleston Emergency Management Director Mark Wilbert on Thursday holds a flier that was distributed to media with surveillance footage of a suspect wanted in connection with the shooting. (Photo: David Goldman)ASSOCIATED PRESS
Surreace Cox, of North Charleston, South Carolina, holds a sign during a prayer vigil down the street from the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday. (Photo: David Goldman)ASSOCIATED PRESS
Worshippers gather to pray in a hotel parking lot across the street from the church. (Photo: David Goldman)ASSOCIATED PRESS
A police officer uses a flashlight while searching the area. (Photo: David Goldman)
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CBS, CNN, NBC: Suspect Arrested
#BREAKING: #CharlestonShooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof caught in Shelby, NC, law enforcement confirms to @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/wEnp2LuBPi
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) June 18, 2015
#CharlestonShooting suspect taken into custody in North Carolina, according to senior law enforcement official. http://t.co/4Z8oXzQP3K
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 18, 2015
NBC News: Suspect in Charleston church shooting has been captured
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) June 18, 2015
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Suspect Reportedly Received Gun As Birthday Gift
Carson Cowles, Roof's uncle, told Reuters
he recognized his nephew in the photograph released by police, and that
Roof had received a gun from his father as a 21st birthday gift in
April.More on the shooting here.
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Today 11:05 AM EDT
Everytown For Gun Safety Responds
The following is from a press release sent by Everytown For Gun Safety:
EVERYTOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA MOMS RESPOND TO MASS SHOOTING IN CHARLESTON THAT KILLED NINE
Lucy McBath, Mother of Jordan Davis and Everytown Faith Outreach Leader, Calls for Action to Prevent Gun Violence
Previous Everytown Research on Mass Shootings: everytown.org/mass-shootings
COLUMBIA, S.C.
– Everytown for Gun Safety and the South Carolina chapter leader of
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown, are
responding today to a Wednesday night mass shooting during a prayer
meeting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that
killed nine worshippers and injured an unconfirmed number of others.
Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator, was among
those killed. The alleged gunman has not yet been identified or
apprehended, but he has been described as a white male in his early
twenties.
STATEMENT FROM LUCY MCBATH, MOTHER OF SLAIN FLORIDA TEEN JORDAN DAVIS AND EVERYTOWN FAITH OUTREACH LEADER
“We
send our thoughts and prayers to the Charleston and AME communities
today. Last night’s events bring me to tears, but I know all too well
that we also need far more than thoughts and prayers to ensure no other
community is forced to endure this unthinkable tragedy. America is faced
with a unique national crisis in which we cannot even go to church—a
sacred place where we should feel safe to worship—without the threat of
gun violence. Unbelievably easy access to guns in our country emboldens
dangerous and ill-intentioned individuals to carry out unthinkable
crimes. This crisis calls for solutions that will reduce our nation’s
alarming rate of gun violence that kills 88 Americans every single day.
Our work to prevent gun violence can both respect the Second Amendment
and honor the Sixth Commandment: Thou shalt not kill.”
STATEMENT FROM SYLVIE DESSAU, VOLUNTEER CHAPTER LEADER FOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTER OF MOMS DEMAND ACTION
“Our
thoughts are with the families of the victims who were senselessly
killed Wednesday night as they attended a prayer meeting. While the
details are still unfolding, nine innocent lives were taken and others
were injured as a result of last night’s horrific mass shooting. South
Carolina needs to focus on keeping guns out of dangerous hands, which
would help prevent future tragedies. It’s time we stand up for the
safety of South Carolinians and work to reduce gun violence that
continues to claim too many lives across the state.”
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