#williamdecade

sorry i disagree, using the word “torched” really?, several of those investigation reports are out right now, perhaps you should read them.

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Oh but I dO read. Quite a bit, in fact, but my problem is that I don’t put white-privilege-blinders or #newblackmentality™ shades on before I read the news. So I’m free to use common sense and conclude that this unusually high number of Black churches, and Black churches only, burning so soon after a massacre in a Black church in the South, and so soon after the Confederate flag being removed by a Black woman, isn’t some random, inexplicable “coincidence”

I wonder, precisely who do you think it is ruling those church fires as “accidents”? Good ole boys who luv them some guns, grits and the Confederate flag, or totally fair and impartial people? 

News corporations, owned by White people, ran by White people and largely staffed by White people, were notably slow to run any stories about all the Black churches burning throughout the South. Because White supremacy is extraordinarily reluctant to eVER indict White people as a group, while on the other hand, we saw 24/7 coverage of a burning CVS in Baltimore, implicating Black people as an entire race, who were somehow responsible for any and all violence anywhere whenever there are "riots" (aka constitutionally protected protests that were 99.999 percent peaceful) staged after innocent and unarmed Black people are murdered by law enforcement

And right on cue, White, Southern fire "experts" are now reassuring White fragility by telling everyone that lightning - not good-hearted, "innocent" White people - was responsible for some of the churches being burned

Please explain to me why I am obligated to believe them any more than I believe police when White owned news organizations dutifully report that the police gunned down another unarmed Black person because they felt "threatened"? Am I to believe that the same racism that is so obvious in the police department and the news media is somehow magically absent from fire department “experts” who conveniently blame lightning that apparently only singles out Black churches?

I’ve been Black for almost 31yrs - that’s way too long for me to automatically believe anything the authorities tell me. There is a very long and well documented history of burning Black churches in the South. Someone says the burnings are an accident and not arson? Show me *all* the evidence and PROVE IT 

So, no offense, but you’re hitting on something near and dear to me with your uninvited, obtuse comments, and you can keep right on “disagreeing” and believe whatever you need to, but in the meantime, I’ll be staying very woke over here in the real world