#Black churches attacked by racists

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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized

The Proud Boys no longer have control over their own name. Under a ruling by a Washington judge on Monday, the infamous far-right group was stripped of control over the trademark “Proud Boys” and was barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized. In June 2023, the church won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys after the organization’s former leader, Enrique Tarrio, and several of his subordinates attacked it in a night of violence after a pro-Trump rally in December 2020.

The ruling by the judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, effectively means that Proud Boys chapters across the country can no longer legally use their own name or the group’s traditional symbols without the permission of the church that was attacked, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The ruling also clears the way for the church to try to seize any money that the Proud Boys might make by selling merchandise like hats or T-shirts emblazoned with their name or with any of their familiar logos, including a black and yellow laurel wreath. In a lengthy statement, Mr. Tarrio said the church should have its nonprofit status revoked and Judge Bosier should be impeached. “Their actions are a betrayal of justice,” he wrote, adding, “I hold in contempt any motions, judgments and orders issued against me.” The initial judgment against the Proud Boys determined that Mr. Tarrio and other members of the group had climbed over a fence surrounding the church, which is just blocks from the White House, and burned a Black Lives Matter banner it was flying. The episode took place after a violent clash between supporters and critics of President Trump. The church called the Proud Boys’ actions “acts of terror” in its lawsuit and said they had been meant “to intimidate the church and silence its support for racial justice.” A judge agreed, calling the Proud Boys’ conduct “hateful and overtly racist.” When the Proud Boys failed to turn over any money, lawyers for the church sought to satisfy the judgment by seizing control of the trademarked name and by enjoining the group from “selling, transferring, disposing of or licensing” any merchandise using the words “Proud Boys” or any of the organization’s symbols.

The ruling was handed down as the Proud Boys were riding high after Mr. Trump, in one of his first official acts in his return to the White House, included Mr. Tarrio and several of his lieutenants in his sweeping act of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people prosecuted in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Mr. Tarrio, who was serving a 22-year prison term on charges of seditious conspiracy, received a full and unconditional pardon from Mr. Trump. His four co-defendants had their own prison terms commuted to time served. The banner-burning episode had a dramatic effect on the events of Jan. 6. It led to Mr. Tarrio’s arrest on vandalism charges as he returned to Washington on Jan. 4, 2021. As part of the case brought against him, he was kicked out of the city and was in Baltimore when his subordinates took part in the storming of the Capitol. On the night the banner was burned, another Proud Boys leader, Jeremy Bertino, was stabbed on the street during a clash with leftist counterprotesters. One lingering effect of that episode was that it turned the Proud Boys against the police after years of having troublingly close relationships with officers across the country. Another was that Mr. Bertino eventually became a government witness and testified against his compatriots at the trial of Mr. Tarrio and his co-defendants.

[benzodiazepinicaa]

Pictures of Charleston shooting and the society's reaction to it

We always talk about Dylann and his personality, his tastes, and the photos he took of himself. But we forget how cruel the attack was. Regardless of whether you are a racist or not, you have to admit that this is cruel. And Dylann Roof himself stated, during his interrogation, that the people were innocent. They were innocent because they were in a church, praying, and were not doing anything wrong. The case of Dylann Roof gives us a thought for those who say that black people deserve to die because they are criminals: so why don't they kill the criminals, the thieves, the drug dealers? In any case, 9 innocent people, 9 good Christians lost their lives. This generated countless debates throughout the country and only served to give yet another reason to the stupid idea of take down the Confederate flag (I am against banning it).

name of the victims of the massacre

Sharonda Coleman-Singleton

Daniel Simmons

Clementa Pinckney

Cynthia Hurd

Susie Jackson

Ethel Lance

Myra Thompson

Tywanza Sanders

Depayne Middleton Doctor

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Richard Luscombe at The Guardian:

The Proud Boys have lost control of their own name after the far-right extremist group subjected a Black church in Washington DC to a “hateful and overtly racist” attack during the violent final days of Donald Trump’s first presidency. The ruling Monday by Judge Tanya Jones Bosier of Washington DC’s superior court grants the church – the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal church – power over how the Proud Boys moniker is used. Bosier’s decision opens a pathway to seizing proceeds from the sale of any merchandise featuring the white supremacist group’s name, logos and insignia, too. Lawyers for the church sought the ruling to satisfy a $2.8m judgment stemming from the December 2020 attack during a rally by Trump supporters who falsely claimed that victory was stolen from him when he lost the presidential election that year to Joe Biden. Several Proud Boys members scaled a wall at the church and embarked on a rampage of vandalism that included burning a Black Lives Matter (BLM) banner. The mob included Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a planner of the 6 January 2021 Capitol attack who was subsequently sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy. But he was among 1,500 people pardoned and freed when Trump returned to office in January after defeating Kamala Harris in November’s election. In a June 2023 ruling, DC superior court judge Neal Kravitz said Tarrio and fellow Proud Boys members John Turano, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Jeremy Bertino had “acted with an evil, discriminatory motive based on race and that their conduct was reprehensible to an extreme degree” when they attacked the church.

It was one of a number of violent incidents that took place in the Washington DC area between Trump’s defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and the deadly January 6 attack by his supporters trying to keep him in office. Tarrio did not take part in the Capitol insurrection because he had been arrested for stealing a BLM flag in an separate assault on the Asbury United Methodist Church, one of four churches attacked by the Proud Boys on the same night. He watched the riot he had helped organize from a hotel room in Baltimore.

Here is some poetic justice, on Black History Month no less: Far-right domestic terrorist group Proud Boys lost their own naming rights to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in DC, which was one of the churches vandalized by the far-right group.

See Also:

Daily Kos: You’ll never guess who now controls the Proud Boys brand

Washingtonian: A Historic DC Black Church Now Owns the Proud Boys’ Name

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[lostinhistory]

The Proud Boys no longer have control over their own name.

Under a ruling by a Washington judge on Monday, the infamous far-right group was stripped of control over the trademark “Proud Boys” and was barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized. In June 2023, the church won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys after the organization’s former leader, Enrique Tarrio, and several of his subordinates attacked it in a night of violence after a pro-Trump rally in December 2020.

The ruling by the judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, effectively means that Proud Boys chapters across the country can no longer legally use their own name or the group’s traditional symbols without the permission of the church that was attacked, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.

The ruling also clears the way for the church to try to seize any money that the Proud Boys might make by selling merchandise like hats or T-shirts emblazoned with their name or with any of their familiar logos, including a black and yellow laurel wreath.

In a lengthy statement, Mr. Tarrio said the church should have its nonprofit status revoked and Judge Bosier should be impeached. “Their actions are a betrayal of justice,” he wrote, adding, “I hold in contempt any motions, judgments and orders issued against me.”

The initial judgment against the Proud Boys determined that Mr. Tarrio and other members of the group had climbed over a fence surrounding the church, which is just blocks from the White House, and burned a Black Lives Matter banner it was flying. The episode took place after a violent clash between supporters and critics of President Trump.

The church called the Proud Boys’ actions “acts of terror” in its lawsuit and said they had been meant “to intimidate the church and silence its support for racial justice.” A judge agreed, calling the Proud Boys’ conduct “hateful and overtly racist.”

When the Proud Boys failed to turn over any money, lawyers for the church sought to satisfy the judgment by seizing control of the trademarked name and by enjoining the group from “selling, transferring, disposing of or licensing” any merchandise using the words “Proud Boys” or any of the organization’s symbols.

The ruling was handed down as the Proud Boys were riding high after Mr. Trump, in one of his first official acts in his return to the White House, included Mr. Tarrio and several of his lieutenants in his sweeping act of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people prosecuted in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mr. Tarrio, who was serving a 22-year prison term on charges of seditious conspiracy, received a full and unconditional pardon from Mr. Trump. His four co-defendants had their own prison terms commuted to time served.

The banner-burning episode had a dramatic effect on the events of Jan. 6. It led to Mr. Tarrio’s arrest on vandalism charges as he returned to Washington on Jan. 4, 2021. As part of the case brought against him, he was kicked out of the city and was in Baltimore when his subordinates took part in the storming of the Capitol.

On the night the banner was burned, another Proud Boys leader, Jeremy Bertino, was stabbed on the street during a clash with leftist counterprotesters.

One lingering effect of that episode was that it turned the Proud Boys against the police after years of having troublingly close relationships with officers across the country. Another was that Mr. Bertino eventually became a government witness and testified against his compatriots at the trial of Mr. Tarrio and his co-defendants.

[traegorn]

How bad is it that I'm in a sphere where I feel like I can't reblog your video, because what if my friend's followers think it's "abuse apologism", and I think it says something about the internet and left spaces when a necessary conversation is drowned out by "be pure or else" as if a lot of people when they were kids weren't growing up in shitty homes or- especially nowadays- being convinced of shit by people who want to cause harm in internet spaces.

Like I saw a video of a trans woman talking about how people are waiting for the "good people" online to not be perfect once so they can attack and harass them into oblivion and that resonated with me, especially since if you can't get better, you're not even going to try.

Like, I grew up in a deep, white, red state/southern-esque town. I was raised by very heavy racists, transphobes and my extended family were exceptionally not great.

The shit I believed from what I was raised on wasn't great, because there's a level of isolation. Be fucked if anyone found out the general thought processes I had as a teenager/just sprouting adult.

Have I changed? Yeah. It's been nearly a decade, change happens, I grew, I am trying my best to pull others out of those mindsets.

But man, it sucks that no matter how much good you do, what you've done to rectify things, one small blemish, as bad as like saying the r-slur as a teen sometimes (as an example of something small) can ruin your life.

And if people haven't changed, it's not like anyone's actively saying "you have to tolerate the behaviour as it happens, you can't decide not to associate with that person". In fact if they hurt you, you should probably tell them and if they refuse to stop hurting you, absolutely cut them from your life.

But this one and done parasocial purity politics stuff is so much like how the Church was that I definitely wish people would like think for a moment before doing the exact line of thinking that "committing one sin will damn you forever to hell" came from.

And the fact that I feel the need to disclaimer things, lest someone think I'm condoning people who are deeply bigoted and causing direct harm, kinda just proves the point.

If no one can heal and become a better person, then no one is going to even try and unlearn those lines of thinking.

But these ppl don't care bc well, it's giving them a chance to "fight back against oppression/harm" (read, cause harm while calling it justice).

And then ppl wonder why others will completely separate themselves from their group.

Sorry for the ramble.

I mean, if you don't say it, they won't hear it.

Whether or not they listen is up to them. You can't really control that.

We're all human. We were all different people at some point. We have to be willing to let people learn and evolve. And like, it's hard. The easy thing is to view the world in black and white and treat ostracize the "impure." The world seems so simple when you can categorize folks as "good people" and "bad people."

We have to be able to forgive folks who truly want to be better.

[hindahoney]

The shooting in Jacksonville, FL exemplifies the unified struggle that the Black and Jewish communities face. The shooter wore a swastika, one of his firearms was engraved with a one, and beforehand he wrote an antisemitic and racist journal for the police to find (similar circumstances for the mall shooting in May in which the shooter also had Nazi tattoos, and the Christ Church shooting, in which he was active on Nazi sites and wrote an antisemitic/racist manifesto). Neo-Nazism has become a full epidemic, and the Jewish and Black communities are the ones targeted the most.

Jewish communities, as we always have and always will, firmly stand with Black communities who are still currently reeling from this attack.

[geezerwench]

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

The Proud Boys no longer have control over their own name.

Under a ruling by a Washington judge on Monday, the infamous far-right group was stripped of control over the trademark “Proud Boys” and was barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized. In June 2023, the church won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys after the organization’s former leader, Enrique Tarrio, and several of his subordinates attacked it in a night of violence after a pro-Trump rally in December 2020.

The ruling by the judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, effectively means that Proud Boys chapters across the country can no longer legally use their own name or the group’s traditional symbols without the permission of the church that was attacked, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.

The ruling also clears the way for the church to try to seize any money that the Proud Boys might make by selling merchandise like hats or T-shirts emblazoned with their name or with any of their familiar logos, including a black and yellow laurel wreath.

In a lengthy statement, Mr. Tarrio said the church should have its nonprofit status revoked and Judge Bosier should be impeached. “Their actions are a betrayal of justice,” he wrote, adding, “I hold in contempt any motions, judgments and orders issued against me.”

The initial judgment against the Proud Boys determined that Mr. Tarrio and other members of the group had climbed over a fence surrounding the church, which is just blocks from the White House, and burned a Black Lives Matter banner it was flying. The episode took place after a violent clash between supporters and critics of President Trump.

The church called the Proud Boys’ actions “acts of terror” in its lawsuit and said they had been meant “to intimidate the church and silence its support for racial justice.” A judge agreed, calling the Proud Boys’ conduct “hateful and overtly racist.”

When the Proud Boys failed to turn over any money, lawyers for the church sought to satisfy the judgment by seizing control of the trademarked name and by enjoining the group from “selling, transferring, disposing of or licensing” any merchandise using the words “Proud Boys” or any of the organization’s symbols.

The ruling was handed down as the Proud Boys were riding high after Mr. Trump, in one of his first official acts in his return to the White House, included Mr. Tarrio and several of his lieutenants in his sweeping act of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people prosecuted in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mr. Tarrio, who was serving a 22-year prison term on charges of seditious conspiracy, received a full and unconditional pardon from Mr. Trump. His four co-defendants had their own prison terms commuted to time served.

The banner-burning episode had a dramatic effect on the events of Jan. 6. It led to Mr. Tarrio’s arrest on vandalism charges as he returned to Washington on Jan. 4, 2021. As part of the case brought against him, he was kicked out of the city and was in Baltimore when his subordinates took part in the storming of the Capitol.

On the night the banner was burned, another Proud Boys leader, Jeremy Bertino, was stabbed on the street during a clash with leftist counterprotesters.

One lingering effect of that episode was that it turned the Proud Boys against the police after years of having troublingly close relationships with officers across the country. Another was that Mr. Bertino eventually became a government witness and testified against his compatriots at the trial of Mr. Tarrio and his co-defendants.

by Alan Feuer

[mariailoveyou-guerin]

tktk pmo glad jj is gone bc how are they putting cleo and pope last in these rankings then screaming it’s not bc they racist looking like the spawn of skinhead trump supporter they is the comments talking about the only ranking the perfect order the only ranking order they matters! like the pogues would even be alive this szn or any szn without cleopope them below kie and johnb especially this szn is some next level racism bullsh*t it’s literally taking me! kie at 2 bc mf (self insert) JJ johnb 4 are you joking but pope/Cleo the rightful 1&3 at 5-6 don’t pmo! Yeah everyday they making me sooo happy their fav is six feet under rotting even if he’s my fav bc the disrespect my ranking/order (and its just them being racist) bc Cleo pope below mf annoying kie who did nothing all szn + meh boring johnb all bc them being in ship with the blondes! glad JJ escaped and they can’t use him for another szn to be fcvking weirdo racist constantly using him to be nasty to the 1 person that means the most to him in world and his girlfriend

pogues without pope and Cleo got ran over by kook got alcohol throw at them and Sarah and JohnB didn’t even go help or join lie in confronting all those Kook Vs one Cleo alone saving Johnb and Sarah after Sarah got jumped pushed then pope saving them from burning alive while JohnB did nothing again he never done sh*t but this season even more so and they putting them

cleo being there from the second pope got arrested to he got out didn’t leave his side once in 2 whole days!

jj tells kie he’s dad isn’t his dad and his bio dad tried to k1ll him and he killed his real mother and all kie can say is sorry jayj’ They expecting us to believe she loved him

johnb getting attacked a pregnant Sarah jumps on man double her size comes back to save him meanwhile he just watched her fall in the ocean and did nothing that jj jumped after her not Johnb after his unborn child and wife I’m sorry but johnb ain’t been sh*t ever or since s1 but especially this szn and last szn where’s s1 jb gone?

jj literally gets stabbed and Groff is turning the knife in deeper and lie is literally standing doing nada yet again cared more about those turtles then she ever did JJ an that’s a fact that’s proven time and time again now so happy he’s free because he deserved better then that and her if we are being honest here he’s to good for her

pope ran away from the law and literally killed for Cleo is a fugitive for Cleo and JJ ended up in jail for JJ is a fugitive now because of JJ and it could’ve been worse him being a black boy jumping a cop who had his gun out the way it would’ve been different if this was real!

pope saw Cleo bleeding and got something to hold the pressure so she didn’t bleed out or lose to much blood but you telling me lie couldn’t put pressure on jj wound at least to try and save him on top of just standing still

pope Cleo risking their lives to protect JJ an the others the fact only JJ was against them staying 😒behind to protect him (saying NO they should stick together and there aren’t enough ballets) and the others is actually so very on brand for the “pogues” he’s the only one to ever care about pope cleo and them others couldn’t gaf was running for their lives didn’t even check to see or argue with them on why it should be them yeah I’ll never forgive those posies and now the only real pogue to care for pope and Cleo is gone they really all alone now so scared for them in s5 who gonna protect them?

cleo was the one that heard pope Sarah at the church while jb was having extensional crisis about not being like his dad she’s the one that got him to get them out!

Pope is the one who figured out they needed to go to Charleston who told them about the crown while also putting his life in danger again from killers who was actively trying to kill the pogues he don’t even have good balance coordination remember JJ saying that in s2 yet he did that for them again putting his life at risk for his so called best friends who didnt even bother to check up on him and see if he’s okay or if he got out of jail and you telling all Johnb could say after seeing Cleo after 3 days was how’s pope? Like don’t fcvking pmo!

and you telling they putting these people at the bottom of their ranking like how is this not bc of racism please explain it to me like I’m five because there’s no other explanation other then the obvious they try so hard to lie and make it seem like it’s not bloody obvious why they keep putting the only black people last and saying they should’ve died instead when a literal racist is just breathing and existing with the pogues right now

Yeah can’t ever take this fandom seriously so glad obx is ending next year and this is their last season I’ve had enough just need my popecleo away from those very ungrateful hoes who truly never cared about them to even be like are y’all good or even checked up in Cleo!

[foreignswaggersession]

minor controversial opinion? - i don't like how the consensus opinion appears to be that grace is the bad sibling because she made a homophobic remark in episode 4. frankly, she had every right to be mean to louis in that moment. if you're my last living brother and you fail to respond to me for several years, miss every major family event, only show up sporadically at night without explanation, during which time you leave my newborn child on the ground (!!!), break the door down, and scare my other children (!!!), then it's crickets for more years and when you finally show up, it's at our mother's wake, with a young girl you picked up off the street, and you tell me you're raising her with the white guy you ran a brothel with for several years, the same white guy who crashed our last family funeral, and now you bring said white guy to our black family wake (also a racist white mob attacked the black community just happened a few years ago, if you recall, beloved brother), yes i'm gonna come at you sideways! i'm going to question whether a former brothel owner who neglects his own nieces and nephews can raise a black teenage girl with a white man who also frequents brothels please be serious. and i'm calling that white man you brought slurs. be fucking forreal!

louis doesn't get to claim victimhood in his relationship with grace b/c she was mean to him (after being the strongest ally he had left) and then made a tombstone for him when he obviously was not aging but had cut ties with the family (louis did the abandoning!). louis's primary way of demonstrating love is being present (walking paul to church every day, staying with lestat despite everything, following claudia to europe, staying with armand despite everything), and he failed to be present for grace. louis could have made an honest effort to maintain a relationship with grace without harming her. he could have come up with an explanation for his nightly visits that also explained his eyes changing color (the whole de pointe du lac family seems very chill about the supernatural). he could have at least stayed in constant communication over the phone or mail. but he didn't. and he must accept the consequences.

[fantasyinvader]

I was thinking about how the Black Eagles kids are supposed to represent the moral decline of the Empire and how that decline likely traces back to Agartha gaining influence over said Empire. If we have Edelgard being akin to the Agarthans, as asura are compared to eagles, and Hubert is her TWSITD, then what about the rest of the kids?

With Ferdinand, we have his House losing it's status and he can become Edelgard's vassal to regain what he lost. Ergo, a parallel to the Agarthans wanting to take back the world they feel is theirs and theirs alone. This is contrasted by routes where he walks away and joins the Church forces, instead focusing on protecting those who served his family and getting them out of the Empire.

Caspar knew in his gut that what Edelgard was doing was wrong, it went against his sense of justice. Either he ignores this, even gives into bloodlust, or doesn't turn off his brain. If he joins Edelgard and takes over her army after the war, the Japanese script implies he's invading other countries with a bunch of out of control juggalos. Basically, Agartha going around killing all their neighbours.

Linhardt is opposed to how immoral the Agarthans during White Clouds, yet can ignore this to research for Edelgard. He's a reflection of the experiments Agartha does in pursuit of their goals, done so without regard to morals.

Bernie is either afraid of someone coming to hurt her in her hiding hole so she goes out to hurt them instead, or she leaves her room to wander Fodlan for five years before joining the Church. She's the Agarthans hiding from Fodlan underground. Even her becoming the head of her family sees her doing so from seclusion, her best endings are ones where she leaves her home all together.

Dorothea is against the nobility, but lacks the self-awareness to realize she is more privileged than other commoners. Either she helps Edelgard's tyranny, blaming the Goddess for the war that Edelgard started, or she leaves looking after orphans for five years before joining the Church. This reflects the Agarthan record of why they're living underground, they understand that they spilled a lot of blood and attacked Sothis when she tried to stop them, but make themselves out to be the victims when they are hit with the consequences of their own actions.

Petra experienced the racism of the Empire, where she was treated like an animal rather than a princess. She either fights for the Empire she hates so that Edelgard may free her people (on Edelgard's terms) with knowledge she isn't her equal, or Petra fights the racist empire that looked down on her. She doesn't really reflect the Empire directly herself, more she reflects the Agarthan influence making the Empire racist as they are.

If the Black Eagles join Edelgard, if they become villains, they represent what the Empire has become. By joining the Church, they instead go towards what the Empire was supposed to be when the Church helped found it. They go against Agartha's influence, getting their full development regardless of which route they are on. Just look at Ferdie and Caspar, like Byleth they only get their paralogues if they fight against her.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Adria B. Walker at The Guardian:

On Friday, the Department of Justice (DoJ) released its report on the Tulsa race massacre after announcing the review last September. The report came more than 100 years after a June 1921 report by the justice department’s Bureau of Investigation, a precursor to the FBI, blamed the massacre on Black men and alleged that perpetrators did not violate any federal laws.

The Friday DoJ report, however, acknowledged that the attack by white citizens on Black residents “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”. “The Tulsa race massacre stands out as a civil rights crime unique in its magnitude, barbarity, racist hostility and its utter annihilation of a thriving Black community,” Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general of the DoJ’s civil rights division, said in a statement. “In 1921, white Tulsans murdered hundreds of residents of Greenwood, burned their homes and churches, looted their belongings, and locked the survivors in internment camps.” “Until this day, the justice department has not spoken publicly about this race massacre or officially accounted for the horrific events that transpired in Tulsa. This report breaks that silence by rigorous examination and a full accounting of one of the darkest episodes of our nation’s past. This report lays bare new information and shows that the massacre was the result not of uncontrolled mob violence, but of a coordinated, military-style attack on Greenwood.”

The 126-page report was conducted by a team of lawyers and investigators from the Emmett Till Cold Case Unit of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division who “spoke with survivors and with descendants of survivors, examined firsthand accounts of the massacre given by individuals who are now deceased, studied primary source materials, spoke to scholars of the massacre and reviewed legal pleadings, books, and scholarly articles relating to the massacre”, according to the department. Despite the report’s findings, Clarke noted that “there is no living perpetrator for the justice department to prosecute”. Last June, the Oklahoma supreme court threw out a lawsuit brought by Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, two Tulsa race massacre survivors, that sought to make the city of Tulsa pay restitution to survivors and their descendants. Randle and Fletcher, who are both 110, were children at the time of the massacre.

The DOJ released its report on the Tulsa Race Massacre over 100 years after its initial 1921 report that wrongly blamed the Greenwood Village massacre on Black men and that the preparators didn’t violate any laws.

The recent DOJ report acknowledged a reality that can’t be refuted: the attack on the town’s Black residents “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence.”

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On June 17, 2015, a 21-year-old white man named Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat in on a Bible study session for about an hour before opening fire on the other participants, killing nine people. All of the worshippers were Black.

Roof kept a personal website where he posted images of himself alongside Confederate flags and icons and expressed racist views. Before the Charleston church massacre, he uploaded a manifesto to the site in which he praised George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black 17-year-old. Prior to the attack, he allegedly told friends that he hoped to incite a “race war.”

The nine victims killed in the shooting were Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Myra Thompson, and Clementa C. Pinckney, the senior church pastor and a South Carolina state senator. Five people survived the shooting.

The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, known as “Mother Emanuel” to many, is one of the largest and most storied Black congregations in the South. Just six years after its founding in 1816, the church was burned down after it was discovered that Denmark Vesey, one of the church’s founders and ministers, was planning a large-scale rebellion. Black churches were outlawed in Charleston in 1834, but after the Civil War ended in 1865, the Emanuel Church reopened.

President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy at the funeral service for the Rev. Pinckney, and the church has continued to be a strong presence within the Black community in Charleston. The Rev. Anthony Thompson, whose wife Myra was killed in the shooting, said the racial attack “forced a reckoning with Charleston's history, and demeanor.” He has devoted himself to communal truth-telling initiatives ever since, inviting community members to engage in a more honest conversation about Charleston’s history and legacy of racial violence.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/death-row-biden-commutation.html

The number of prisoners on federal death row shrank from 40 to just three on Monday after President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men who had been facing the death penalty.

Leaving three men on death row, Mr. Biden said in a statement, is in line with his opposition to carrying out the death penalty “in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.”

Dylann Roof, 30, was convicted of hate crimes in the killing of nine Black parishioners in a racist attack on a Charleston church in 2015.

Robert Bowers, 52, was convicted of hate crimes in the killing of 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 31, was convicted of helping to carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three spectators and wounded hundreds more.

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tell me I'm overthinking.

What is happening right now is a direct reaction to operation paperclip (us scooping up Nazi scientists before they could be tried for their crimes in Germany after WWII) and the Russian equivalent.

All the Nazi scientists ended up in the good old Southern USA, given these spots curtesy of the US government. and what did they do? they set up fucking churches. They helped perpetiuate ractist ass ideals down there. Went to see public lynchings. Tried to stand on Jim Crowe and other racist ass bullshit to suppress minorities. killed black men who married white women, have been screaming for black women to trake it for too long when they suffered from abuse. used the constitutional loophole of legal slavery for imprisoned people to oppress masses for years.

They discriminated against gay and trans people, putting them in prison, beating them or killing them.

So they sat, and for 2 generations, they have fucking moved in the shadows, building up power and influence in us fucking politics.

the current attack in marginalized people isn't a fucking joke. questioning birthright citizenship of Native Amercians???? ON THEIR FUCKING STOLEN LAND?? They're going after our rights, until there is something so fucking OUTLANDISH that even the Supreme Court is going to say -nah, not this one. and that's when we'll get marital law or a constitutional convention.

I'm so scared.