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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Tue Dec 12, 2017, 05:21 PM Dec 2017

Now is the time to talk about white terrorism

... Roof’s manifesto was reminiscent of a similar document penned in 2008 by a conservative Tennessee man named Jim David Adkisson. Adkisson was enraged by the looming nomination of a black man as the Democratic candidate for the presidency ...

In July 2008, Adkisson walked into a Unitarian Universalist church in downtown Knoxville during a performance of a children’s musical, armed with a 12-gauge shotgun. He opened fire, killing two people and wounding seven more ...

During that time span, there were 201 total cases of domestic terrorism in the United States – almost three times the rate of the preceding eight years. The large majority of these crimes were committed by rightwing extremists – some 115 in all, compared to 63 cases of Islamist-inspired domestic terror, and 19 cases of leftwing-extremist terrorism ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/26/alt-america-terrorism-rightwing-hate-crimes

We could have saved lives by deporting all the white people from Charleston and Knoxville!

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