Ken,
We are all on the same page when it comes to the heinous crime of this deranged young man. You are simply having trouble calling this act terrorism. You prefer to keep it academic, by dancing around the word terrorism. That is what most ivory tower folks do, and that is your choice, to remain intellectual in all situations.
Having read most of your posts in this forum I know that you believe in your heart that this deranged young man is a terrorist. Am I right?
Kwaku
Chicago
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - "White Terrorism Is as Old as America" - New York Times
here is another piece on the history of white terrorism dealing with the 1871 law that you cite: (cited in Informed Comment)http://www.juancole.com/2015/06/attacks-officials-voters.html
US Anti-Terror Law banned White Racist attacks on Black Officials, Voters
By contributors | Jun. 21, 2015 |
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"
Posted in African-Americans,History,racism,US politics | No Responses | Print |
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On 6/21/15 7:33 AM, kwame zulu shabazz wrote:
Media outlets have been reluctant to classify the Charleston shooting as terrorism, despite how eerily it echoes our country's history of terrorism. American-bred terrorism originated in order to restrict the movement and freedom of newly liberated black Americans who, for the first time, began to gain an element of political power. The Ku Klux Klan Act, which would in part, lawmakers hoped, suppress the Klan through the use of military force, was one of America's first pieces of antiterrorism legislation. When it became federal law in 1871, nine South Carolina counties were placed under martial law, and scores of people were arrested. The Charleston gunman's fears — of black men raping white women, of black people taking over the country — are the same fears that were felt by Klansmen, who used violence and intimidation to control communities of freed blacks.
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