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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:39 PM Jun 2015

3 Black Churches burnt in North Carolina, Georgia and S.Carolina in the past 5 days.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/26/1396786/-3-Black-Churches-burnt-in-North-Carolina-Georgia-and-Florida-in-the-past-5-days

In Charlotte, N.C., authorities say a June 24 fire at Briar Creek Baptist Church was the result of arson and is being investigated as a possible hate crime. NBC News reported that more than 75 firefighters were needed to extinguish the three-alarm fire, and an hour passed before the blaze was under control. Two firefighters received medical treatment for heat-related injuries. The church sustained $250,000 in damage, including a collapsed ceiling and significant damage to a space used for a children’s summer camp. The sanctuary was spared, sustaining smoke damage along with the gymnasium.

A June 23 fire at God’s Power Church of Christ, a predominantly Black church in Macon, Ga., has been ruled as arson, although there is no indication it was a hate crime. As was reported in the Macon Telegraph, the front doors of the church were locked and wired shut when authorities arrived, but a side door was unlocked. The Federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives was called, as is the case with church fires, and authorities also noted that electronics and other air conditioning equipment had been stolen from the church in two burglaries. A $10,000 reward is available through the Georgia Arson Hotline for information leading to the arrest of an arsonist....

What are the FBI and the N$A doing to deal with what would appear to even the dullest creature as a pattern ?

Multiple agencies, including the FBI, are investigating a fire that destroyed an Aiken County church.


Got domestic terrorism?
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randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. Yep...gonna escalate now with Gay marriage. I wish I wasnt right that there are TENS OF MILLIONS
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:40 PM
Jun 2015

OF RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC ASSHOLES HERE, BUT THERE ARE

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
3. But, but, but I thought marriage equality was an attack on Christianity!
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:42 PM
Jun 2015

I'm so confuuuuuuused! </barbarino>

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
5. Yep, it's not going away, hatred toward blacks, hatred toward women, hatred toward LGBT,
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:47 PM
Jun 2015

hatred toward many things. It will all continue. There are pockets of hatred all over this country and some are pretty deep.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. So is the M$M covering this? I don't have cable.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:42 PM
Jun 2015

Or are they (as I read in another thread) doing wall to wall coverage of the fugitives in NY?

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
4. I see this as terrorism. To me, there is a fine line between hate and terrorism. In fact,
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:44 PM
Jun 2015

when action is taken, I think they are synonymous.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
8. I think it should be called terrorism
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:51 PM
Jun 2015

and fought tooth and nail, with as much gusto as they are fighting the "war on terror." They won't do it though. It makes their priorities very transparent. People inside the country are being terrorized by other people inside the country and they ignore it. Instead, they insist the only real threat comes from outside the country. They need to wake up and see the threat inside the country.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
6. There were hundreds back in the 90s.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:48 PM
Jun 2015

This race hatred and terrorism has been going on for ages now. I wish they would start doing something about it. I'm sick of it. So much hatred.

roamer65

(36,747 posts)
9. So where are the white Christians who usually scream "Persecution"?
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 07:53 PM
Jun 2015

Oh wait...they're probably the ones burning down the black churches. "Never mind", as Gilda Radner used to say as Ms Latella.

Admiral Loinpresser

(3,859 posts)
12. This is terrorism.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 08:06 PM
Jun 2015

But because the terrorism on this continent for the last 500 years has not traditionally labelled terrorism, people are only slowly waking up to that fact.

To distinguish between terroristic acts on the basis of skin color is the essence of racism.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
14. It is clear that Christans of Color are being persecuted by a vicious racist terrorists
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 09:26 PM
Jun 2015

This should be covered by every news media.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
15. In at least a couple areas...
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:45 PM
Jun 2015

America is waking up. To paraphrase Yamamoto, the haters have "awoken a sleeping giant". They will not win.

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