Posted on 07/14/2015 2:16:27 PM PDT by Zakeet
“When it comes to church burnings, many African Americans see the difference between an official hate crime and an act of ‘vandalism’ as an issue of semantics, especially given the long, painful history of racists intentionally—and largely independently—setting fire to black churches all over the country,” – Jack Jenkins, ThinkProgress
In recent weeks, investigators have been examining the circumstances surrounding a series of fires at predominantly black, southern churches. While some of the more recent fires were ruled accidental, authorities found evidence for arson in at least three cases. Burning black churches has a long, well-documented history as a white tactic for intimidation, particularly in the days of the Civil Rights Movement. More recently, a mid-1990s series of racially-motivated church burnings prompted the 1996 Church Arson Prevention Act.
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White supremacists do the dirty work, but repressive silence and willful misremembering allow racism to continue to flourish. Beginning to confront white privilege means realizing that it implicates every white person—not just the violent outliers. Confronting white privilege means submitting to the truths carried in black memories of violence. Lynchings, church burnings, Jim Crow, and the everyday macro- and micro-aggressions shaping black life have much to do with how we live and move in this world as well. For white people, the violent experience of black oppression is also the history of our privilege, and we must start to acknowledge it as such.
(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...
Carolyn J. Davis is a hack who works in a think tank founded by Clinton bozo John Podesta (Center for American Progress) ... a graduate of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School (the same one that flunked out Al Gore for being too stupid) ... and an ordained minister in The United Methodist Church.
Al Gore... I like to agree he's stupid, but then, how did he make a billion dollars? I like to think I'm smart, but I'm still trying.
Only one burned around here in recent history and it was reported by the Fire Marshall as electrical. White churches gave them worship space and raised money for them to rebuild.
Al Gore... I like to agree he's stupid, but then, how did he make a billion dollars? I like to think I'm smart, but I'm still trying.
Maybe you didn't pander to the right people in the right way ...
The last few incidences of vandalism at black churches I have read about were perpetrated by blacks.
And the media baselessly bashing people for just being white aint helping matters either....
it only serves as more radicalization fuel for demonic beasts like dylan roof.....
The Rev. demonstrates again the moral corruption that has consumed the UMC. 3 churches throughout the entire southern region might have been torched deliberately. Her only rationale is racism. How about insurance fraud?
As to Gore, when morality is no longer a consideration any self serving criminal activity that gets desired results will do.
How do they know it wasn’t blacks who burnt the churches?
I don't remember any in the news in the Detroit Suburbs when I was growing up.
” the 1996 Church Arson Prevention Act.”
A worthless piece of “feel good legislation” that hasn’t done an effing thing.
What exactly is a “Black” church? Does it have to have a certain percentage of Black members, be a certain denomination associated with African Americans or what? Wouldn’t a church that confines its membership to largely one race be itself racist? So if a church is destroyed in a fire deemed to be arson, is the crime somehow magnified based on the percentage of Black members? For example would the burning of a church with say 20% Black members not rise to the level of a hate crime but the burning of a church with 51% Black members would be deemed a hate crime? This whole idea of making certain kinds of church fires hate crimes is absurd especially when there is no evidence of arson. It would seem that somehow the racial make up of the congregation negates the facts.
Man Is Indicted in 10 Church Fires in Indiana and Georgia, One in Which a Firefighter Died
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/21/us/man-indicted-10-church-fires-indiana-georgia-one-which-firefighter-died.html
Firestorm — A Review of the 1996 Church Fire Scare
Posted on 5/29/2002,
During the summer of 1996, Americans were deluged with thousands of newspaper, magazine and television reports that racists were torching black churches* throughout the South.
This article traces the origins and events of what appears to have been a remarkably effective campaign of disinformation.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/691591/posts
Because maybe, just maybe ... you know.
I wonder if she realizes just how idiotic this statement sounds.
What would she think if We said that all black people have to bear guilt because a demographic of black males ages 15-45 which constitutes less than 2% of the population commits nearly 50% of all the murders?
Build a religion for secular people that runs on money. There you go. I’ll take my ten percent, thanks. :-)
It’s an art form.
FYI - your work!
Fascinating. She refers to the Emmett Till murder as a lynching even though it fails to meet the standard set up by the Tuskegee Institute, a black institution.
Not every murder of a black person by white people back in the day was a lynching. Some were just murder.
While she discussed the history of lynchings, I notice she carefully avoided mentioning the numbers. 3,446 black people were lynched in America from 1882 to 1968, the vast majority in the South. The great majority were early in the period, with the annual number down to single digits by the mid-30s.
Lynchings were horrible, and were denounced very early, as by A. Lincoln in the 1830s.
But they just weren’t nearly as common as the mythology holds. Watched a Denzel Washington movie recently in which it was implied that an average black person might witness or be aware of several lynchings per year in their particular area, in the 30s. Which is just flatly untrue.
But then the movie, to my considerable astonishment, also presented as truth the utterly disproven story of Willie Lynch. I guess that story is considered “false but accurate.”
Personally, I think it smacks a lot of the Elders of Zion. Make stuff up to prove how evil an entire race is.
Insurance companies took a good look at ‘black churches burning’ a few years ago...
Reminds one of the lesbian woman who carved hate messages into her own skin and tried to blame white men.
Or the Oberlin case of the white liberal student running around pretending to be KKK.
Or the case of the student feminist leader who wrote ‘rape threats’ to herself and attempted to blame conservative men.
There’s patterns...
A few years back a local burned three churches one summer for the simple reason he was a firebug.
If a firebug lives in an area of predominantly black churches, what’s gonna burn?
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