Where does the violence end? In the last two years, it seems more and more individuals are being made aware of the systemic racial and brutal violence that African Americans still deal with in the United States.
This may not be new to those wearing their brown skin on a daily basis but certainly new to society as a whole recognizing how systemic racism and hatred still play a role in 2015.
Many eyes across the nation have certainly noticed how the violence in recent years is similarly tied to the Jim Crow/ Black Codes violence of the past. Protests, police brutality, voter id, and now in 2015 a church shooting at a historic African American church.
On Wednesday night, Dylan Roof, 21 years old, allegedly sat in Emanuel AME bible study for an hour before opening fire and killing 9 people. Roof's father had recently bought him a .45-caliber gun for his 21st birthday. Roof has been pictured with confederate flags and apartheid patching on both his clothing and car.
Six females and three males were killed in the church. Among the victims was the church's politically active pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney. Pinckney was a state senator.
This may not be new to those wearing their brown skin on a daily basis but certainly new to society as a whole recognizing how systemic racism and hatred still play a role in 2015.
Many eyes across the nation have certainly noticed how the violence in recent years is similarly tied to the Jim Crow/ Black Codes violence of the past. Protests, police brutality, voter id, and now in 2015 a church shooting at a historic African American church.
On Wednesday night, Dylan Roof, 21 years old, allegedly sat in Emanuel AME bible study for an hour before opening fire and killing 9 people. Roof's father had recently bought him a .45-caliber gun for his 21st birthday. Roof has been pictured with confederate flags and apartheid patching on both his clothing and car.
Six females and three males were killed in the church. Among the victims was the church's politically active pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney. Pinckney was a state senator.
"This is an unspeakable and unfathomable act by somebody filled with hate and a deranged mind," Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley said in a Thursday morning press conference. He vowed that authorities were "committed to finding this horrible scoundrel."
Police have described the attack as a “hate crime” and the suspected shooter, Dylann Roof, 21, was arrested during a traffic stop in North Carolina.
The Department of Justice now opened a hate crime investigation into the shooting at the oldest AME church in the South.
Emanuel AME is a historic African-American church that traces its roots to 1816, when several churches split from Charleston's Methodist Episcopal church. One of its founders, Denmark Vesey, organized a slave revolt in 1822. He was caught, and white slaveowners had his church burned in revenge. Parishioners worshipped underground until after the Civil War. When the church was rebuilt it was renamed Emanuel AME, Emanual meaning "God is With Us".
The Department of Justice now opened a hate crime investigation into the shooting at the oldest AME church in the South.
Emanuel AME is a historic African-American church that traces its roots to 1816, when several churches split from Charleston's Methodist Episcopal church. One of its founders, Denmark Vesey, organized a slave revolt in 1822. He was caught, and white slaveowners had his church burned in revenge. Parishioners worshipped underground until after the Civil War. When the church was rebuilt it was renamed Emanuel AME, Emanual meaning "God is With Us".
Written By: Lauren B. I @laurenbeal
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