General News Another Black Church Burns in the South, the 8th in 10 Days

Gen · Jul 3, 2015

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Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, a prominent African-American church in Greeleyville, S.C., caught fire late Tuesday. It is the eighth black church in the Southern U.S. to burn in 10 days.

Greeleyville, about 60 miles northwest of Charleston, S.C., has seen similar fires before, the Charleston Post and Courier reports. Mount Zion was burned to the ground by the KKK in 1995, part of a string of 30 fires in black churches that spanned two years.

An investigation into the fire’s cause will begin after it is safely extinguished, chief of the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division Mark Keel told the Post and Courier. He noted that the thunderstorm that pounded the town of 375 on Tuesday evening could have ignited the church. Meteorologist Pete Mohlin of the National Weather Service told the paper that there was a lot of lightning in the area around 7 p.m., but he could not say if it had caused the fire.

Parishioners across the South are surveying the damage that a string of similar fires has caused this week, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports, starting in Knoxville, Tenn., on June 21 and moving to Macon, Ga., and Gibson County, in Tennessee, on June 23; Charlotte, N.C., on June 24; Elyria, Ohio, on June 25; and Tallahassee, Fla., and Warrenville, S.C., on June 26.

Three of those fires have been ruled arson, one was determined to be caused by a falling branch and faulty wiring, and the others remain under investigation. Several have been blamed preliminarily on lightning; weather in the South this week has been turbulent.
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For the record, suggesting falling branches and lightnings means that they couldn't physically find the accelerant or do wish to tell the public. It doesn't meant that they have any proof that is the case. Theoretically, they could be right and mother nature has a secret vendetta against the minority of black churches in the south.

Ryu · Jul 3, 2015

Are the KKK still around? Shit... I would of though that they were over this now. It's been 47 years since the first civil rights laws were passed in America, and they are still being racist sods?... Jeez...

HuskyPup · Jul 3, 2015

Ryu said: ↑

Are the KKK still around? Shit... I would of though that they were over this now. It's been 47 years since the first civil rights laws were passed in America, and they are still being racist sods?... Jeez...
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Sadly, the KKK are still around, as are a lot of other similar violent hate groups.

It's really sad to see this happening; it's far beyond coincidence.

Here's a good resource about hate groups in the US:

SPLC List

And a map, you can look at them, state by state:

http://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

Chi and Bashful · Jul 3, 2015

Interesting I wonder if there choosing not to rule them arsons publicly to kind of prevent a string of copycats but it doesn't look like it's working

Posthuman666 · Jul 3, 2015

Why would anyone do this? Racism needs to die out entirely.

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