The KKK as a visual entity has all but disappeared. As a symbolic entity of the continuing hatred of blacks by a majority of the Republican Party, the Klan mindset thrives. Roof, sadly, is not an exception in his extremism.
Donald Trump couldn’t attract enough “real Americans” to cheer for him at his presidential campaign announcement, so he hired a bunch of actors to stand around and cheer at fifty bucks a pop.
Reverend Pinckney was a dedicated pastor and a committed public servant who made it his life’s mission to help others.
Even after the murder of nine African-Americans in a hate crime, South Carolina Republicans are refusing to take the Confederate flag down from the state capitol, but one picture shows why the flag should come down right now.
“This time we have to find answers together. I pledge to you, I will work with you—those of you who are local officials, those of you who are thinking hard about your own communities. Let’s unite in partnership, not just to talk, but to act.”
What I don’t understand, however, is why the President, in his comments on Thursday morning, one day after the massacre, didn’t spend more time addressing the glaringly apparent racial aspects of this event that have already been openly acknowledged by authorities.
The Bidens urged, “But as a nation we must confront the ravages of gun violence and the stain of hatred that continues to be visited on our streets, in our schools, in our houses of worship, and in our communities.”
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has canceled his scheduled campaign event in Charleston, SC this weekend and is urging his supporters to donate to the Emanuel AME Church.
Conservatives wasted no time trying to dismiss racism as a factor in the shooting instead calling it an attack on Christianity.
It looks like NBC is intentionally trying to destroy MSNBC as the network has demoted Brian Williams from evening news anchor to breaking news/special reports anchor at MSNBC.
The media’s attempt to deny the discussion about hate being directed at black people jumped the shark today when a CNN anchor Chris Cuomo (who used to be co-anchor for ABC’s 20/20) tweeted that we can’t be sure the shooter and mass murderer is white. He could be in disguise.
In his remarks after the Charleston church massacre, President Obama displayed his leadership by discussing the nation’s easy access to guns in relationship to the number of mass shootings in the United States.
Early Thursday morning, officials had already called the mass shooting and killing of nine people in a historic African American church in Charleston, South Carolina a hate crime.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Pope Francis today for delivering a powerful message on climate change. Sanders also reminded Republicans that they invited the Pope to address them and urged climate change deniers to listen to what Francis is saying.
Susan B. Anthony List has called a rape exception “abominable,” “regrettable,” “just wrong” and “completely intellectually dishonest.”
Police in South Carolina have stated that the killing of nine African-Americans at a black church in Charleston was a hate crime.
It took CNN hours to provide live coverage, but they were better than MSNBC and Fox News who stuck with replays of taped shows and did not provide live coverage of a horrific mass shooting at an African-American church in Charleston, SC.