From Fox News to Lindsey Graham: The racist murderer targeted 'Christians', not black Americans

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It's hard to imagine a more dismissive treatment of the victims of a mass murder than to studiously ignore their very identity, the very thing that they were explicitly targeted and killed for, because your own ideology would prefer the truth be something different. To go even farther, and claim that their murder was not even about them, it was about your group, and how their murders prove how your group has been victimized. At least have the withered decency to acknowledge that the openly racist murderer was a racist murderer—that the man who said he was there to kill black Americans was, indeed, there to kill his victims for being black Americans. Do not give bullshit statements about your sympathies for the community when you aren't willing to even name the "community" being targeted.

And on and on it goes. Oh, it just so happens that black Americans get shot in disproportionate numbers by American police forces. Oh, it just so happens that black Americans make up a conspicuously improbable majority of those targeted in the drug "wars." Oh, it just so happens that a large percentage of black Americans find themselves living the communities where their parents were required to live because of policies against granting black Americans mortgages in the "other" communities only a few short decades back. It's just an uncanny coincidence that the justification the murderer used when murdering black Americans in a black church, because "you rape our women," was used earlier in the week by one of the far more "respectable" presidential "candidates" as reason why another minority group were indecent people who should not be welcomed here. It's all a great big damn coincidence.

An American racist who believed black Americans should be violently segregated or expunged went into a black Southern church and murdered the people inside. Again. Just like all the other times. If you are running a news show and cannot speak of that, get up and leave the set. If you are running for high political office and professed to be stumped as to how this could happen—again after a very long history of it happening—abandon your campaign and resign your posts. You have nothing of value to us. Either recognize America as it is or, for the love of God and country, shut up.

Incidentally, you may be wondering where the Fox News and Lindsey Graham interpretation of these events as attacks on "Christians", rather than on black Americans, was so quickly hatched. You need not wonder: it was first spawned in the white supremacist groups themselves. That it elevated itself in a single night to become a conservative media talking point is, presumably, yet another one of those uncanny coincidences. And yes, in South Carolina today the Confederate flag still flies proudly on the statehouse grounds.