USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Many Ask, Why Not Call Church Shooting Terrorism?

This is a clear act of terrorism. African Americans have been terrorized for centuries America. Americans, especially White Americans, have no problem identifying "terrorism" on foreign soil. But they are often blind to the anti-black terror in their own backyard.

There is also the legal designation of "hate crime" which, by another perversity of inherently (anti-black) US law, African Americans are victimized by hate crimes more than any other group but they are charged with hate crimes at a higher rate than other Americans.

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On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 10:10:46 AM UTC-5, Toyin Falola wrote:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/us/charleston-shooting-terrorism-or-hate-crime.html

Many Ask, Why Not Call Church Shooting Terrorism?

By RICK GLADSTONE

June 18, 2015

The massacre of nine African-Americans in Charleston has been classified as a possible hate crime, apparently carried out by a 21-year-old white man who once wore an apartheid badge and other symbols of white supremacy. But many civil rights advocates are asking why the attack has not officially been called terrorism.

Against the backdrop of rising worries about violent Muslim extremism in the United States, advocates see hypocrisy in the way the attack and the man under arrest in the shooting have been described by law enforcement officials and the news media.

Assaults like the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 and the attack on an anti-Islamic gathering in Garland, Tex., last month have been widely portrayed as acts of terrorism carried out by Islamic extremists. Critics say, however, that assaults against African-Americans and Muslim Americans are rarely if ever called terrorism.

Moreover, they argue, assailants who are white are far less likely to be described by the authorities as terrorists.

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