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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – – Governor Nikki Haley announced on Monday that she would attempt to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the statehouse, recognizing the pain it causes the one-third of the state who are African-Americans (about a quarter of whites also don’t care if it is up or […]

African-Americans

Top 5 Reasons Confederate Flag should stop Flying at SC Statehouse

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 1. The Confederate flag in its current form was adopted by the seceding slave states to differentiate their banner from the Stars and Stripes on the battlefield. It isn’t a symbol of regionalism. It is a symbol of violent attack on the Union. 2. Those who […]

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Patterns of Racial Violence in the US: Charleston Shooting wasn’t a “One-Off” Event

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By Ethan Zuckerman | (The Conversation) | – – When you read about Dylann Roof, think about the patterns he represents. There’s more than one. Over the next few days, we’re going to hear about mental illness. We’re going to hear about troubled loners. We’ll hear about a young man’s racist fantasies, so outrageous that […]

African-Americans

1871: First US Anti-Terror Law banned White Racist attacks on Black Officials, Voters

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Dara Lind | (Vox Video Report) | – – “Was the shooting that killed 9 people in Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church on Wednesday terrorism? Vox’s Dara Lind explains.” Vox: “The Charleston shooting is part of a long history of anti-black terrorism”

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How Lindsey Graham & GOP lost the Chance to be Presidential over Charleston

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in my view never had any chance of becoming president, though he has thrown his hat into the ring for the Republican nomination. So it would be an overstatement to say that he lost the opportunity because of his maladroit response to […]

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Sexism, Racism and Terrorism: Roof’s Misuse of Women to justify Lynching

Juan Cole

By Lisa Wade | (The Conversation) | – – Many important things will be said in the next few weeks about the murder of nine people holding a prayer meeting at a historic African American church in Charleston, South Carolina on the evening of June 17. Here I want to focus on what the suspected […]

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Rhodesian Flag, Confederate Flag: Roof & the Legacies of Racial Hate

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Benjamin Foldy | (Informed Comment) | – – When the perpetrator in the horrific massacre at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston was first publicly identified as Dylann Storm Roof, a near-instantaneous Twitter trawl of his social media uncovered his Facebook profile picture. In the picture, Roof sports two flag patches on his left breast: […]

African-Americans

Our reply to Dylann Roof’s Hate: Donate to “Mother Emanuel” AME Church

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – There are many essential responses to the racist terrorism that attacked Emanuel AME Church, which the state of South Carolina should take. It should stop flying the Confederate flag. It should undo the gerrymandering by the white Republican Establishment that keeps the one-third of the population […]

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Since 2002, Right-wing White Terrorists have Killed More Americans Than Muslim Extremists

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “When we have certain kinds of attacks in this country, there is terrorism world-wide, it’s a global conspiracy and they are coming to get us. But when we have other kinds of terrorism in this country . . . don’t talk about it. Cenk Uygur […]