Black Churches A Target Because Of Being Pro Civil Rights And A Threat To Of New Movement..

[TheMastersNemesis]

Because of the threat of a new vigorous civil rights movement that could come out of the black churches and spawn new leaders like MLK they are prime targets in this militia resurgent era. To many we cannot go back to the agitation of the original civil rights movement that created big changes.

Now that we are quietly seeing re segregation, resurgence of open racism, de facto apartheid in this county, the new initiatives fighting for reform of our policing institutions, things must be quashed before they can begin anew. At this point the insurgent forces of racism are winning in many clandestine ways. The policing inequalities are just one symptom of what is going on.

The church in Charleston was one of these churches that could lead the fight forward and renew a new civil rights movement at robust as during the MLK era. Just like reproductive rights we are fighting the civil rights fight again. That is mostly because the GOP has succeeded in passing Jim Crow like laws on voting and emasculated the Voting Rights Act. The intent that includes gerrymandering and the end of one person one vote is a way to permanently lock out minorities, immigrants and other undesirables out of political power.

And this new fight will end up being more vicious than the last. Inequality is the status quo right now and certain entities will do all it can to maintain and even increase it.

[Sinistrous]

1. Totally true. Totally dark. Totally terrifying.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. Ever Since Civil Rights Act RW & Racists Have Plotted To Erase It

Ominous racist forces have been plotting from the very beginning to erase the Civil Rights Act by nefarious means. MLK's assassination was part of this plot. James Earl Ray did not act on his own. I believe there was a conspiracy behind his actions that have been well covered up. The Kennedy assassinations still leave many questions.

Today mass incarceration, compromise of the media, eroding laws et al have been part of an over all scheme to prevent blacks and hispanics from organizing. Potential new leadership has been jailed, killed or compromised like the union movement in Bolivia to keep these minorities in check.

Resegregation and clandestine apartheid is now more the rule than the exception. The racist GOP is working at getting ahead of demographics and population shift by isolating these populations like the townships in South Africa. And the GOP wants white supremacist and religious minorities to rule the majority.

The trouble is that no one tries to call them out on their racism. When you see what just happened in Kansas it is obvious the GOP will use extreme and EVEN violent means by proxy to move their agenda.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. On any other given day you're wailing to the heavens about churches even being allowed to be open.

Your anti-Christian screeds have gone on for years. Taken in the context of your race war baiting thread that got locked I can't help but look at your OP with a side eye.

And just for the record here is a list of church shootings -- not including the Charleston AME -- in recent years:

February 14, 2010 - Richmond, California - Three hooded men
walk into Gethsemane Church of God in Christ and opened
fire and then fled the scene, as the singing of the choir
was replaced by frightened screams. The two victims, a 14-
year-old boy and a 19-year-old man, were hospitalized.

March 8, 2009 - Maryville, Illinois - Suspect Terry Joe
Sedlacek, 27, of Troy, walks into the First Baptist Church,
and shoots pastor Fred Winters dead, point blank. Several
church members are injured by a knife in the struggle to
capture after the attack, The suspect also had stabbed
himself, but survived, when his gun jams.

July 27, 2008 - Knoxville, Tennessee - A gunman opens fire
in a church during a youth performance, killing two people
and injuring seven.

Dec. 9, 2007 - Colorado - Three people are killed and five
wounded in two shooting rampages, one at a missionary
school in suburban Denver and one at a church in Colorado
Springs. The gunman in the second incident is killed by a
guard.

May 20, 2007 - Moscow, Idaho - A standoff between police
and a suspect in the shootings of three people in a
Presbyterian Church ended with three dead, including one
police officer.

Aug. 12, 2007 - Neosho, Missouri - First Congregational
Church - 3 killed - Eiken Elam Saimon shot and killed the
pastor and two deacons and wounded five others.

May 21, 2006 - Baton Rouge, Louisiana - The Ministry of
Jesus Christ Church - 4 killed - The four at the church who
were shot were members of Erica Bell's family; she was
abducted and murdered elsewhere; Bell's mother, church
pastor Claudia Brown, was seriously wounded - Anthony Bell,
25, was the shooter.

Feb. 26, 2006 - Detroit, Michigan - Zion Hope Missionary
Baptist Church - 2 killed + shooter - Kevin L. Collins, who
reportedly went to the church looking for his girlfriend,
later killed himself.

April 9, 2005 - College Park, Georgia - A 27-year-old
airman died after being shot at a church, where he had once
worked as a security guard.

March 12, 2005 - Brookfield, Wisconsin - Living Church of
God - 7 killed + shooter - Terry Ratzmann opened fire on
the congregation, killing seven and wounding four before
taking his own life.

July 30, 2005 - College Park, Georgia - World Changers
Church International - shooter killed - Air Force Staff
Sgt. John Givens was shot five times by a police officer
after charging the officer, following violent behavior.

Dec. 17, 2004, Garden Grove, Calif.: A veteran musician at
the Crystal Cathedral shoots himself to death after a nine
-hour standoff.

Oct. 5, 2003 - Atlanta, Georgia - Turner Monumental AME
Church - 2 killed + shooter - Shelia Wilson walked into the
church while preparations are being made for service and
shot the pastor, her mother and then herself.

June 10, 2002 - Conception, Missouri - Benedictine
monastery - 2 killed + shooter - Lloyd Robert Jeffress shot
four monks in the monastery killing two and wounding two,
before killing himself.

March 12, 2002 - Lynbrook, New York - Our Lady of Peace
Catholic Church - 2 killed - Peter Troy, a former mental
patient, opens fire during Mass, killing the priest and a
parishioner. He later receives a life sentence.

May 18, 2001 - Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Greater Oak
Missionary Baptist Church - 2 killed - Frederick Radford
stood up in the middle of a revival service and began
shooting at his estranged wife, Nicole Radford, killing her
and a woman trying to help her.

Sept. 15, 1999 - Fort Worth, Texas - Wedgewood Baptist
Church - 7 killed + shooter - Larry Gene Ashbrook shot dead
seven people and injured a further seven at a concert by
Christian rock group Forty Days in Fort Worth, Texas before
killing himself.

April 15, 1999 - Salt Lake City, Utah - LDS Church Family
History Library - 2 killed + shooter - Sergei Babarin, 70,
with a history of mental illness, entered the library,
killed two people and wounded four others before he was
gunned down by police.