Early Bird Rise and Shine

Lisa Doctor joins a prayer circle early Thursday, June 18, 2015, down the street from the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Today

2:15 PDT: The President delivers remarks at the Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, California

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Morning everyone.

Charleston

As I said on the Tweet Machine, I wasn’t going to post this ‘On This Day’ photo because of the horror of Charleston, but then…. it’s imagery like this, of our wonderful *black* First Couple, that drives the bigots insane.

So, **** them:

Our President.

Our First Lady.

Endless love for them.

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MUST READ: Remembering the #CharlestonShooting victims (fuller stories on each person) http://t.co/5xpApS4cRQ

— deray (@deray) June 18, 2015

https://twitter.com/TheObamaCat/status/611694204390141952

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No hoodies
No toy guns
No breathing
No listening to music at a gas station
No asking for help after a car accident
No praying at church

— L E F T, PhD ⚫️ (@LeftSentThis) June 18, 2015

https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/611644362703945729

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https://twitter.com/TheBaxterBean/status/611557746090053632

https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/611647989136932864

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https://twitter.com/MichaelHargrov1/status/611660657335881728

https://twitter.com/TheObamaCat/status/611643196167299072

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https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/611628459312435200

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Tone deaf: Bernie Sanders holding loud pension rally yards away from #CharlestonShooting prayer circle that starts at noon

— Matt Laslo (@MattLaslo) June 18, 2015

https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/611720146714017793

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A rare honest voice:

As Americans we must stand together against domestic terrorism fueled by an ideology of hate.

— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 18, 2015

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She’s since deleted her account.

We’ll wait to see if the ever ethical Miami Herald …. 🙄 …. deletes her as a contributor:

https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/611603643180171264

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This Is What Happens When White Supremacy Goes Unchecked

I gotta get to work, but one quick thing before I go: We don't teach the true history of white supremacy in this country.

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015

We call Jim Crow "segregation" as if it was about lunch counters and movie theaters, not lynching and disfranchisement.

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015

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We talk about lynching as if it were lawlessness in the night. Lynch law was THE law.

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015

We teach the Civil War, but not the collapse of Reconstruction. We teach the bus boycott but not the 80 years that went before.

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015

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We teach about colored water fountains but not black children executed by the state for imaginary crimes.

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015

Teach the young people you know about white supremacy and how to fight it. Because their schools won't. http://t.co/91ixCnBPVK

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015

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All of this. This is not just for white people who pass down racism to their future generations. This is for white people who stay silent in the face of white supremacy. Racism and white supremacy is not for Black people to fix. It is on YOU. When that father, mother, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, cousin, grandparents spew racist rhetoric, makes racist jokes, uses derogatory words to describe black people, promotes negative stereotypes of black people and laughs it off as just a joke and you stay silent, you condone it. This is serious. It is about people’s lives. Do not stay silent

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https://twitter.com/scATX/status/611505840822980610

https://twitter.com/scATX/status/611505969692958720

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https://twitter.com/scATX/status/611506163775987712

https://twitter.com/scATX/status/611506404600320001

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https://twitter.com/scATX/status/611506823728738305

https://twitter.com/scATX/status/611506973838737408

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if you read anything about the #CharlestonShooting, let it be this piece on who the victims of the shooting were: http://t.co/3zTDprzcwT

— drea ✨ (@zevallos_andrea) June 18, 2015

IMPORTANT READ: Coroner names 9 slain in downtown #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/kBxXeMfswL

— deray (@deray) June 18, 2015

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#CharlestonShooting victims include "brilliant" pastor, recent college grad: http://t.co/Nqzm7rESiC pic.twitter.com/TynN76GAIL

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) June 18, 2015

I'm not feeling these Je Suis tweets. The SC victims were black folk in prayer and bible study. They weren't drawing race-baiting cartoons.

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) June 18, 2015

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Proof once again that on some important issues, Justice Roberts is a fool

2 years ago John Roberts overturned heart of Voting Rights Act because he said "things have changed dramatically" in the South

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 18, 2015

https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/611594230318931968

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Look at the smirk on his face. This is what the face of terrorism looks like

Dylann Roof, suspected gunman in SC church massacre, escorted from Shelby, NC, Police station en route to court. pic.twitter.com/JslPeyenJh

— ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2015

MORE: Roommate: Alleged Charleston church gunman “was big into segregation and ... wanted to start a civil war" -- http://t.co/cTphmSUnRt

— ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2015

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Truth

Stop using some ambiguous mental illness to justify white men who are terrorists. Racism and entitlement aren't mental illnesses.

— this abortion ass bitch (@martinsheen_) June 18, 2015

Media: lol we don't know why he did it
Dylann Roof: I did it because I hate black people
Media: lol we don't know why he did it

— this abortion ass bitch (@martinsheen_) June 18, 2015

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https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/611581099844759552

Deny voting rights, healthcare, equality, dignity. Fly the confederate flag over state buildings. Purchase a clue, @nikkihaley

— meta (@metaquest) June 18, 2015

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Birmingham, AL
Oak Creek, WI
Overland Park, KS
Charleston, SC

Attacks on houses of worship are a STAPLE of white supremacist terrorism.

— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 18, 2015

How Charleston's Emanuel AME Church triggered white southern militarism http://t.co/ma0ipYmjuE pic.twitter.com/uX79c7O2ox

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) June 18, 2015

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https://twitter.com/RobertKittle/status/611523647115816960

Reverend Clementa Pinckney was the youngest senator in South Carolina's history http://t.co/XjxBAklyvr

— TIME (@TIME) June 18, 2015

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https://twitter.com/SankofaBrown/status/611407826058129408

https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/611505748057694208

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Black people: "Thugs"
Arab people: "Terrorists"
White guys who routinely are responsible for mass killings in the US: "Troubled loners"

— Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau) June 18, 2015

White men are 31% of the U.S. population, but 71% of mass shooters. Can we talk about the white male culture of violence yet?

— Shepherd (@NeolithicSheep) June 18, 2015

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https://twitter.com/spokenELLE/status/611373414348029952

https://twitter.com/spokenELLE/status/611382626763583488

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https://twitter.com/ChrisWarcraft/status/611401497738244097

Don't tell Black people not to be enraged. They have every right to be enraged. We have been provoking them for five hundred years.

— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2015

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The African American community has been far more peaceful toward white America than we ever have been toward them. Never forget that.

— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2015

*We* are the ones who need to stop the violence. *We* are the ones who need to stop the hate. *We* are the bad guys. *We must change.*

— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2015

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Any news source that doesn't peg motivation as pure racism is in malpractice territory now. https://t.co/BSsl2DCEij

— Schooley ♟️ (@Rschooley) June 18, 2015

The flags on Dylann Roof's jacket are white supremacist patches. Referencing white ruled African states. #AMEShooting pic.twitter.com/h3xpfhL7pf

— zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2015

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https://twitter.com/SteveHuff/status/611384198709035008

https://twitter.com/Sttbs73/status/611637276590764032

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Despite mourning, statehouse Confederate battle flag remains at full staff #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/ZwLKuSo72y pic.twitter.com/0IFOXu1KDH

— deray (@deray) June 18, 2015

https://twitter.com/MsPackyetti/status/611572896604004352

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Once Again, Another Wake Up Call For America

Full video: Watch President Obama's statement on the tragic #CharlestonShooting. http://t.co/LkxrbDmWQQ

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 18, 2015

"I’ve had to make statements like these too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times" —@POTUS

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 18, 2015

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"We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries." —@POTUS

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 18, 2015

"Innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun." —@POTUS

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 18, 2015

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"To say our thoughts and prayers are with them...doesn’t say enough to convey the heartache & the sadness & the anger that we feel." —@POTUS

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 18, 2015

Obama: "I've had to make statements like this too many times." http://t.co/pDQErAiPdX #CharlestonShooting pic.twitter.com/G38qtUVqaj

— Mashable (@mashable) June 18, 2015

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Donate to Emanuel AME Church: http://t.co/rqaI7KSb3t #CharlestonShooting

— Tatiana Kang The Conqueror (@TatianaKing) June 18, 2015

"With our prayers, our love, and the buoyancy of hope, it will rise again now, as a place of peace." —@POTUS on Emanuel AME Church

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) June 18, 2015

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Remembering Democratic Senator Clementa C. Pinckney (1973-2015). Gone but never forgotten. #sctweets pic.twitter.com/R5C0kua3ug

— South Carolina Democratic Party (@scdp) June 18, 2015

Rev. Clementa Pinckney was just 41. Pastor, state Senator, and he was killed in his own church. #CharlestonShooting pic.twitter.com/GWflNYYZwP

— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) June 18, 2015

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"It's not just a church. It's a symbol of black freedom" Rich history of #EmanuelAME, where 9 were slain last night: http://t.co/iBROzvFjLR

— Sarah Kaplan is lunching out (@sarahkaplan48) June 18, 2015

https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/611536548664877056

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President Obama makes a statement on the Charleston Shooting

 

11:45 EDT: President Obama makes a statement on the Charleston Shooting

The Face Of Terrorism

Dr. King at #EmanuelAME. #HistoricBlackChurch #CivilRightsMovement #CharlestonShooting pic.twitter.com/Iu3ihGjQ2V

— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center (@TheKingCenter) June 18, 2015

Charleston's Emanuel A.M.E. Church was once burned to the ground for its connection with a thwarted slave revolt. http://t.co/yZ7NBP2znp

— Jamil Smith جميل كريم (@JamilSmith) June 18, 2015

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https://twitter.com/markaprovost/status/611412885638631424

The #AMEShooting was an act of domestic terrorism. It should be treated with all of the urgency that term implies. pic.twitter.com/WVjLw0nEsg

— Joshua DuBois (@joshuadubois) June 18, 2015

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“Mother Emanuel” A.M.E. Church History

The history of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church reflects the development of religious institutions for African Americans in Charleston. Dating back to the fall of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Richard Allen founded the Free African Society, adhering to the Doctrines of Methodism established by John Wesley. In 1816, black members of Charleston’s Methodist Episcopal church withdrew over disputed burial ground, and under the leadership of Morris Brown. The Rev. Morris Brown organized a church of persons of color and sought to have it affiliated with Allen’s church. Three churches arose under the Free African Society and were named the “Bethel Circuit”. One of the Circuit churches was located in the suburbs of Ansonborough, Hampstead, and Cow Alley, now known as Philadelphia Alley in the French Quarters of Charleston. Emanuel’s congregation grew out of the Hampstead Church, located at Reid and Hanover Streets.

https://twitter.com/MsPackyetti/status/611505200436801537

https://twitter.com/MsPackyetti/status/611520352062164992

In 1822 the church was investigated for its involvement with a planned slave revolt. Denmark Vesey, one of the church’s founders, organized a major slave uprising in Charleston. Vesey was raised in slavery in the Virgin Islands among newly imported Africans. He was the personal servant of slavetrader Captain Joseph Vesey, who settled in Charleston in 1783. Beginning in December 1821, Vesey began to organize a slave rebellion, but authorities were informed of the plot before it could take place. The plot created mass hysteria throughout the Carolinas and the South. Brown, suspected but never convicted of knowledge of the plot, went north to Philadelphia where he eventually became the second bishop of the AME denomination.

Governor who flies Confederate flag at SC capitol says "we’ll never understand what motivates" #Charleston massacre: http://t.co/OQcgGjm5Af

— Chase Madar (@ChaseMadar) June 18, 2015

We are dishonest about present acts of terrorism against black people in America because we are dishonest about our past. #AMEShooting

— Gramps (@capetownbrown) June 18, 2015

During the Vesey controversy, the AME church was burned. Worship services continued after the church was rebuilt until 1834 when all black churches were outlawed. The congregation continued the tradition of the African church by worshipping underground until 1865 when it was formally reorganized, and the name Emanuel was adopted, meaning “God with us”. The wooden two-story church that was built on the present site in 1872 was destroyed by the devastating earthquake of August 31, 1886. The present edifice was completed in 1891 under the pastorate of the Rev. L. Ruffin Nichols. The magnificent brick structure with encircling marble panels was restored, redecorated and stuccoed during the years of 1949-51 under the leadership of the Rev. Frank R. Veal. The bodies of the Rev. Nichols and his wife were exhumed and entomed in the base of the steeple so that they may forever be with the Emanuel that they helped to nurture.

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This is why people are outraged, frustrated, and disgusted by what Rachel Dolezal did and continues to do. Blackness is not a goddamned costume. You can’t wash away Blackness when the day is over. Blackness is trying to navigate a world where you could be murdered at any time because of the color of your skin. If you aren’t disgusted or turned off by what she did, there is something fundamentally wrong with you

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https://twitter.com/MsPackyetti/status/611377108913422336

#BREAKING- Reports: #Charleston shooter said,"You rape our women and are taking over our country & you have to go."Report coming on @NBCDFW

— Eric King (@TVsEricKing) June 18, 2015

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They welcomed this white man into their safe space & and he got up & turned his guns on them. American history in a nutshell. #AMEShooting

— zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2015

White “Christians” bombed the 16th St. Baptist Church in 1963. This ain’t new https://t.co/j9qOI0GGlQ

— Sneak Tweeter (@theelectwoman08) June 18, 2015

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Tell us more about how America has “overcome racism,” Bernie Sanders

https://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/611371663465254913

This is what American terrorism looks like & has looked like for over 400 years. #AMEShooting pic.twitter.com/B4Vwvunshl

— zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2015

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No hoodies
No toy guns
No breathing
No listening to music at a gas station
No asking for help after a car accident
No praying at church

— L E F T, PhD ⚫️ (@LeftSentThis) June 18, 2015

https://twitter.com/thetrudz/status/611390699200647169

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What domestic terrorism looks like

.@FBI confirms that Dylann Roof, 21, of #Columbia area is suspect in #CharlestonShooting. #chsnews pic.twitter.com/FFYhF1CwYz

— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) June 18, 2015

Breaking: Suspect named in #CharlestonShooting Dylan Storm Roof pic.twitter.com/2IeffUCfGV

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) June 18, 2015

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Wearing apartheid era South African flag. This was a planned and deliberate massacre

Facebook page photo of suspect Dylann Roof, 21, and surveillance image. #CharlestonShooting pic.twitter.com/In5AjlzCRp

— Andrew Knapp (@offlede) June 18, 2015

Suspect in #Charleston shooting identified as 21 yr old Dylann Roof. If you know his whereabouts, call 1-800-CALL-FBI pic.twitter.com/EmFL5gLMCL

— Berkeley County SC (@BerkeleySCGov) June 18, 2015

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Morning

Morning everyone, there just are no words.

#Charleston terrorism open thread

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