Tag: Dylann Roof

Associated PressSeptember 7, 2015
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5min221
Before attending a town hall meeting Monday night in South Carolina, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio — without television cameras or any other media in tow — visited the Charleston church where nine African-American worshippers were shot to death earlier this year. Republican Sen. Tim Scott disclosed the Florida senator’s trip before an audience of […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 15, 2015
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A petition directed to the Baker County Board of Commissioners, from local lawyer John M. Phillips and other in his Florida Justice organization, on Change.org says it plainly: Remove the painting in the Baker County Courthouse depicting the Ku Klux Klan and other divisive imagery.  “There is a mural in the Baker County Courthouse which depicts horse-backed, hooded […]

Marc YachtJuly 1, 2015

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Many skeletons exist in Northern city closets espousing Black oppression. Black Northern migration after the Civil War is important history for all Americans to understand.  The South has no lock on racism. However, the recent South Carolina church killings by a demented young white supremacist rekindles a stark realization. The fires of racial hatred remain […]

Martin DyckmanJuly 1, 2015
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Those who flaunt the Confederate flag insist that it symbolizes “heritage,” not hate. Call it what they will, but that heritage is a heritage of hate. The slave owners and their politicians fancied themselves good, decent, God-fearing people. How could they square that with the countless hideous brutalities they inflicted on their human chattels? They […]

Bill PrescottJune 30, 2015

11min243
Those who flaunt the Confederate flag insist that it symbolizes “heritage,” not hate. Call it what they will, but that heritage is a heritage of hate. The slave owners and their politicians fancied themselves good, decent, God-fearing people. How could they square that with the countless hideous brutalities they inflicted on their human chattels? They […]

Diane RobertsJune 26, 2015

9min232
I am the descendant of at least 10 Confederate soldiers. A few owned slaves; most did not. One great-great-grandfather fought at the Battle of Natural Bridge. Another survived the Siege of Petersburg. So don’t throw the Y-word at me. Don’t tell me I don’t understand. I understand all too well.  The Confederate battle flag is […]

Guest AuthorJune 25, 2015

8min155
So Jeb! didn’t know. Mr. Wonky, details-oriented, well-briefed, bureaucratic slayer of 500-page white papers just didn’t know. (And that’s reading past the executive summary. Take that, George W., MBA-style prez!) According to The Root, a magazine dedicated to black news and culture, now formally announced candidate for president and dynastic-heir wannabe, Jeb Bush, told the […]


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