White Supremacy is the Mother’s Milk of Charleston
By Mumia Abu-Jamal
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June 24, 2015 "Information
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A young white man, barely at the age of his majority, walks into
Charleston’s most storied Black church and, before he leaves, a new
history is written.
Attending the Wednesday night Bible study, he sits
for nearly an hour, but his mind isn’t on the life of Jesus nor his
disciples. It’s on murder, mass murder. When the door shuts behind
him, nine Black souls, elders mostly, had been slain, Bibles in
hand.
The man, or boy more than man really, hadn’t come
to learn about religion, for he had a belief, white supremacy, or
the profound hatred of Black people.
White supremacy is the mother’s milk of
Charleston, of South Carolina, of the South, of America. For surely
as slavery funded and built America, the underlying principle was
the devaluation, exploitation, and oppression of Black life. It’s
the only thing that makes the church massacre in Charleston even
remotely intelligible.
Nine Black people were sacrificed to the blind
idol of white supremacy for the same reason that thousands of Black
men and women were lynched on American elms and pines: as sacrifices
to an idea, to perpetuate a system of economic injustice.
Dylan Roof, the 21 year old accused of this
massacre, had no friends to speak of, no place to stay other than an
associate’s couch, no job, and a tenuous relationship with his
parents. Isolated, alienated, alone in the world, his sole remaining
possession was his whiteness, the only thing that gave his existence
meaning. That was the energy that fueled the massacre in Charleston,
South Carolina.
It now sits like an incubus in the American soul,
seething hatred and fear, waiting for more Black lives to consume.
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: "The leader of a rightwing group that Dylann Roof allegedly
credits with helping to radicalise him against black people before
the Charleston church massacre has donated tens of thousands of
dollars to Republicans such as presidential candidates Ted Cruz,
Rand Paul and Rick Santorum.
