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Why White Supremacists Love the Numbers 14 and 88
A photograph of suspected Charleston shooter Dylann Roof, found on a website that may belong to him, shows Roof crouched over the numbers “1488” etched in the sand. The numbers have special significance to white supremacists. In 2008, after an assassination plot against then-candidate Barack Obama was discovered, Brian Palmer explained why. The article is reprinted here...
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Group That Fueled Dylann Roof’s Hate Is Subsidized by U.S. Taxpayers
The outfit that inspired Charleston’s alleged terrorist is listed by the IRS as an organization to ‘primarily promote the common good’—and therefore pays no taxes.
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The Ivy League’s “Confederate flag” problem: Why is a Yale college still named after John C. Calhoun?
White supremacy never had a better friend in a higher position than Calhoun. One of 12 Yale colleges bears his name
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What it's like to spend a week at Confederate summer camp
The Sam Davis Youth Camp is billed as a camp to learn about Southern history. But the lawyer who runs it has ties to hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
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Ignoring The Obvious
by jollyjack on DeviantArt
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Churches Are Burning Again in America
Arson at religious institutions has decreased significantly over the past two decades, but the symbolism remains haunting. “What's the church doing on fire?” Jeanette Dudley, the associate pastor of God's Power Church of Christ in Macon, Georgia, got a call a little after 5 a.m. on Wednesday, she told a local TV news station. Her tiny church of about a dozen members had been burned, probably beyond repair.
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Charleston Syllabus Builds Book List of Tolerance
In the wake of the shooting death of nine African-American churchgoers in Charlestown, South Carolina, the hashtag #CharlestonSyllabus, emerged devoted to recommending books required for those who wanted to understand race and racism in the US
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White supremacist calls Charleston 'a preview of coming attractions'
Dylann Roof cites Harold Covington’s Northwest Front in his manifesto. The sci-fi writer condemns Roof, but followers ponder the connection
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Confederate flag is a symbol of America's culture wars
American Way: Society is changing rapidly - from Rachel Dolezal to gay marriage - and both sides need to take a breath and see things from the other's perspective. Pretend for a minute you're a professional black woman living in Washington, DC. During your lifetime, things have mostly improved. But everywhere, vestiges of the past still haunt you. Living in Washington, DC, you probably have to take Jefferson Davis highway once in a while...
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I am a black South Carolinian. Here’s why I support the Confederate flag.
I hang the Confederate flag in my home. But that doesn't mean it should fly over our statehouse.
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KKK Launches Massive Membership Drive After Charleston Massacre
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has embarked a massive membership drive after Dylann Storm Roof alarmed America by committing a hate crime, killing nine Charleston residents. Nationwide, cities have reported a host of Klan fliers appearing on the lawns of residents. The fliers, which include contact information for the Klan’s Loyal White Knights, were enclosed in plastic baggies accompanied with Tootsie Rolls and peppermint candy.
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Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America
Social dysfunction can be traced to the abandonment of reason
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South Carolina Church Fire: Mt. Zion AME Church Burns
With grief and shock from the racist killings in a Charleston church still fresh, a predominantly black house of worship in another South Carolina town burned down late Tuesday.
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Professor: White People Are Conditioned to Commit Mass Murder Like in Charleston
Zandria Robinson of the University of Memphis suggested that Dylann Roof’s murder spree was the result of his whitenes.
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Majority of Americans say rebel flag a symbol of pride, not racism
As debate rages in South Carolina over the Confederate flag on its statehouse property, a majority of Americans see the rebel flag as a symbol of Southern pride, not a reminder of racism, according to a new CNN/ORC poll out Thursday. Public opinion is about where it stood 15 years ago, when the Palmetto State removed the rebel St. Andrew’s cross...
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I Spent Two Weeks Tracking A Secret Teen White Supremacist Messaging Group
Inside the lightning-fast, wildly absurd, occasionally terrifying world of app-based teenage white supremacy.
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Confederate flag goes down in South Carolina today.
Closing a chapter on a symbol of the Deep South and its history of resistance and racial animus, South Carolina on Friday lowered the Confederate battle flag from outside its State House, where it had flown for more than 50 years.
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An essay on explaining racism from the guy that wrote "Go the Fuck to Sleep"
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Famous films re-edited to highlight Hollywood's race problem
Dylan Marron’s video series showcases Hollywood’s well-documented diversity problem by reducing films to every single word spoken by a person of colour. If you reduce Moonrise Kingdom to every single word spoken by a person of colour, the film is 10 seconds long, Her and (500) Days of Summer fare slightly better when edited the same way, with the former at about 40 seconds and the latter at about 30.
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Kid Rock tells Confederate flag protesters to ‘kiss my ass’
Kid Rock has frequently used the Confederate flag as the backdrop to his performances, but following the Charleston church shootings last month,...
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