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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 27, 2021Posts Tagged ‘Terrorist
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No Uniting With Terrorists
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Domestic Terrorism
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Standing Shoulder To Shoulder
Our hearts go out to those killed and wounded in Manchester. Americans will always stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of the UK.
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 23, 201723
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Compassion
My heart goes out to the victims and their families in London. No act of terror can shake the strength and resilience of our British ally.
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 23, 201719
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On the efficacy of fear
I was going to write this essay earlier this month, probably after a GOP debate. But, life intervened, and I set it aside.
I certainly wasn’t expecting the Paris attacks. But I should have expected the reaction among most everyone on the Right.
While Parisians are crowding outdoor cafes and continuing with their lives as a raised fist against the fear which Daesh wants them to live under, conservatives in this country are running around flinging fearful fecal matter in every direction, warning that Daesh is under your bed, or that the orphaned refugee could be a sleeper agent ready to detonate a bomb at your nearest NFL stadium.
However, I’m not going to say that this is against American tradition. The fact is that the United States has always had a very vibrant Party of Fear.
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The Face Of Terrorism
Dr. King at #EmanuelAME. #HistoricBlackChurch #CivilRightsMovement #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/Iu3ihGjQ2V
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The King Center (@TheKingCenter) June 18, 2015Charleston's Emanuel A.M.E. Church was once burned to the ground for its connection with a thwarted slave revolt. wpo.st/A93M0
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 18, 2015****
Watch as the media reduces 200 years of black church bombings, burnings, and shootings into "one isolated gunman". #CharlestonShooting
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Mark Provost (@markaprovost) June 18, 2015The #AMEShooting was an act of domestic terrorism. It should be treated with all of the urgency that term implies. http://t.co/WVjLw0nEsg
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Joshua DuBois (@joshuadubois) June 18, 2015****
“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.
A white Southerner spoke this after the '63 church bombing. They sear after #AMEShooting. Via theatln.tc/1kwUrjx http://t.co/GD973Yls7D
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2015Racism is taught. Perpetuated. Learned. It is a cancerous root. It controls a society. It chokes.
Are you guilty?
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2015In 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: gu.com/p/49qkx/stw#bl…
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Chase Madar (@ChMadar) June 18, 2015We are dishonest about present acts of terrorism against black people in America because we are dishonest about our past. #AMEShooting
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Ryan Dalton (@capetownbrown) June 18, 2015During 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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This has been a rotten week for black people.
So was last week.
And the week before.
And...
You see where this is going...
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2015#BREAKING- Reports: #Charleston shooter said,"You rape our women and are taking over our country & you have to go."Report coming on @NBCDFW
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Eric King (@EricKingNBC5) June 18, 2015****
They welcomed this white man into their safe space & and he got up & turned his guns on them. American history in a nutshell. #AMEShooting
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2015White “Christians” bombed the 16th St. Baptist Church in 1963. This ain’t new twitter.com/imadeintruth/s…
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ATribe Called Breast (@theelectwoman08) June 18, 2015****
Tell us more about how America has “overcome racism,” Bernie Sanders
Note the shooting suspect is 21. Please stop telling the lie that racism will die out. This story replicates 100+ years of violence.
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) June 18, 2015This is what American terrorism looks like & has looked like for over 400 years. #AMEShooting http://t.co/B4Vwvunshl
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2015****
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
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LEFT (@LeftSentThis) June 18, 2015To be making mental health diagnoses on WM terrorist who has not been apprehended is White supremacy in action. Also ableism. #AMEShooting
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Trudy (@thetrudz) June 18, 2015****
What domestic terrorism looks like
.@FBI confirms that Dylann Roof, 21, of #Columbia area is suspect in #CharlestonShooting. #chsnews http://t.co/FFYhF1CwYz
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The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) June 18, 2015Breaking: Suspect named in #CharlestonShooting Dylan Storm Roof http://t.co/2IeffUCfGV
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SPLC (@splcenter) June 18, 2015****
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 http://t.co/In5AjlzCRp
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Andrew Knapp (@offlede) June 18, 2015Suspect in #Charleston shooting identified as 21 yr old Dylann Roof. If you know his whereabouts, call 1-800-CALL-FBI http://t.co/EmFL5gLMCL
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Berkeley County SC (@BerkeleySCGov) June 18, 2015****
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