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Nantucket residents were stunned to awaken Sunday morning and find racist graffiti defacing an African-American historic site.
“It was incredibly hurtful. In a sense, it just feels like nowhere’s safe,” said Charity-Grace Mofsen, who manages the island’s African Meeting House, in a phone interview Sunday.
“To see this place that is such a tight-knit community and so peaceful — we’re not exempt,” Mofsen added later. “We’re still dealing with the same issues that you would find in the South, or the small-town Midwest. It’s everywhere.”
Between 4 p.m. Saturday, when Mofsen left the site for the day, and 7 a.m. Sunday, someone spray-painted a racial slur and the word “leave” on the meeting house door, alongside a crudely drawn penis on its shingled facade, according to Police Chief William J. Pittman.
“We don’t have any suspects at this point,” Pittman said. “We’re just canvassing the neighborhood to see if anybody saw anything.”
Within hours of the graffiti’s discovery, residents of the island had gathered to wash it away.
The younger sister of Dylann Roof, who murdered nine black parishioners during bible study at a Charleston church, was arrested and charged Wednesday for possessing drugs and weapons on school grounds.
Morgan Roof, 18, was charged with simple possession of marijuana and two counts of carrying weapons on school grounds, according to the Richland County Sheriff's Department, which confirmed her relationship to Dylann Roof.
Morgan Roof had also made a social media post on Snapchat which alarmed the student body.
In it, Morgan Roof said she hoped the students participating in the National Walkout Day, protesting gun violence, would "get shot."
Students across the U.S. participated in the walkout, including many at schools in the Midlands and Columbia. AC Flora was one of the participating schools.
Based on what Morgan Roof posted online, she disagreed with the walkout. What struck a nerve was her comment that "we know it's fixing to be nothing but black people walkin out anyway."
After her brother murdered nine black people at a church which he purposely selected because of it's black parishioners, he told FBI agents he was hoping to start a race war.
"Your walking out for the allowed time of 17min, they are letting you do this, nothing is gonna change what tf you think it's gonna do? I hope it's a trap and y'all get shot we know it's fixing to be nothing but black people walkin out anyway. No offense ofc buuut," Morgan Roof posted.
On the weapons and drug possession charges, a school resource officer was contacted by a school administrator, in reference to Morgan Roof being in possession of marijuana, pepper spray, and a knife, according to the sheriff's department.
No students were harmed as a result of this incident, the sheriff's department said.
Roof was taken to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said the school’s administrative staff acted appropriately by calling in the SRO to arrest Morgan Roof for violating school policy.
"Potential tragedy was avoided at AC Flora High School," S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster said in a news release. "We owe a debt of gratitude to all involved who acted so quickly and decisively."
Dylann Roof, a self-avowed white supremacist, killed nine black parishioners in June 2015 during a bible study session at Charleston's historic Mother Emanuel AME Church.
Roof pleaded guilty to nine counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder. He is on death row in Indiana.
As thousands of young people across the country march against gun violence, a new study has shed light on America’s obsessions with guns — specifically white men’s obsession with guns.
According to Scientific American, relatively three percent of Americans own half of the country’s firearms. Who fits the profile? White men without a lot of education who are afraid of Black people. The study, published today, claims, “These are men who are anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market, and beset by racial fears…They tend to be less educated. For the most part, they don’t appear to be religious — and, suggests one study, faith seems to reduce their attachment to guns. In fact, stockpiling guns seems to be a symptom of a much deeper crisis in meaning and purpose in their lives.”
Obama also made these men shed white tears, which meant they needed more firearms. “A lot of people talked about how important Obama was to get a concealed-carry license: ‘He’s for free health care, he’s for welfare.’ They were asking, ‘Whatever happened to hard work?’ Obama’s presidency, they feared, would empower minorities to threaten their property and families,” reads the study. In addition, “gun owners had become 50 percent more likely to vote Republican since 1972 — and that gun culture had become strongly associated with explicit racism.” The study claimed the people who were “most emotionally and morally attached to their guns” were 65 percent male and 78 percent white.
Fascinating.
Can we stop saying people love their firearms because of hunting and admit that it’s rooted in white male patriarchy and imaginary fears of Black people? This could explain why when Black men have a license to carry a weapon, they are still killed, like Philando Castile—and the NRA doesn’t say a word. Hopefully the young people who are marching today will make a necessary, positive change in our country’s obsession with guns.
White supremacist literature was found in the home of a Wisconsin man who blew himself up, the Associated Press reports.
Beaver Dam resident Benjamin Morrow was killed when his apartment blew up. Inside, rescue workers found a “homemade explosives laboratory” where he made the explosive out of peroxide.
A newly uncovered search warrant for electronic records says that Morrow had documents “concerning white supremacy groups.” He also had two rifles, a scope, a handgun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a bullet-proof helmet and vest.
According to his loving obituary, Morrow was a devoted Baptist educated at a Christian college in Pensacola, Florida. Before blowing himself up with a homemade bomb, he worked for a pharmaceutical company and a food producer.
As a result of Morrow’s use of dangerous toxic materials, authorities had to blow up the building where he lived. The 10 other families living there were thankfully unharmed but have lost their home.