South Carolina Black Church, Once Torched by KKK, Burns Again

[MrBates2]

Fire officials in South Carolina were digging Wednesday through scorched wreckage of a historic black church gutted overnight under unknown circumstances.

At a news conference Wednesday, investigators said they were still determining what caused the fire Tuesday night at Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, near the rural town of Greeleyville. The collapsed roof and charred brick walls immediately brought to mind a crime 20 years ago, when the Ku Klux Klan torched that very same house of worship to the ground.

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told NBC News that the fire wasn't suspicious, saying the church had been struck by lightning.

But a source close to the investigation later told NBC News: "I don't know where she got that information from."

The source said it would be about a week before state crime lab tests on samples taken from the site would be available, adding: "We did have lightning in the area, but we couldn't confirm the lightning hit the church."

 

[JohnnySavage]

You couldn't post this in one of the other several racist threads on this exact same subject? ffs.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

You couldn't post this in one of the other several racist threads on this exact same subject? ffs.

Hey, leave homeboy alone. It's what Bates does. He rehashes the Black American Experience through the negative for white palates to consume.

We all have our purposes in life and he found his. Don't begrudge him this crucial stage in his performance.

 

[pointless]

Hey, leave homeboy alone. It's what Bates does. He rehashes the Black American Experience through the negative for white palates to consume.

We all have our purposes in life and he found his. Don't begrudge him this crucial stage in his performance.

hey, stupid palates. let's be fair here.