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RIP to the victims who passed.

These ribbons are used to commemorate the lives of victims of the shooting.

The History of the Church

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Americans: "We [the white South Carolinians] took the government away. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them [Blacks]. We are not ashamed of it. We have done our best...We havescratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them."

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This is Coretta Scott King and other people during April 30, 1969 and they were protesting with hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina.

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“…It is this moral lag in our thing-oriented society that blinds us to the human reality around us

and encourages us in the greed and exploitation which creates the sector of poverty in the


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midst of wealth. Again we have diluted ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew

and prospered out of the protestant ethic of hard word and sacrifice, the fact is that Capitalism

was build on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the

exploitation of the poor – both black and white, both here and abroad. If Negroes and poor

whites do not participate in the free flow of wealth within our economy, they will forever be

poor, giving their energies, their talents and their limited funds to the consumer market butreaping few benefits and services in return. The way to end poverty is to end the exploitation of

the poor, ensure them a fair share of the government services and the nation’s resources..."

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“…I removed the flag not only in defiance of those who enslaved my ancestors in the

Southern United States, but also in defiance of the oppression that continues against black

people globally in 2015, including the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the Dominican Republic. I

did it in solidarity with the South African students who toppled a statue of the white

supremacist, colonialist Cecil Rhodes…I did it for all the fierce black women on the front

lines of the movement and for all the little black girls who are watching us. I did it because I

am free…”

-Sister Bree Newsone

Appendix A: Bree Newsome’s courageous action

Brittany Newsome is a hero. She courageously expressed her disagreement with the flying of the

racist Confederate flag by climbing up the 30 ft. flagpole to peacefully take down the flag. She did

this action outside of the South Carolina statehouse. She worked with James Tyson in order to

accomplish this action. Bree was arrested and Tyson was arrested too. They are charged with

defacing a monument, which is a misdemeanor. A freebree crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo

raised almost $100,000 in less than 24 hours. Bree is now bailed out and she is free. Bree’s actions

come in a long tradition of activists using civil disobedience to protest injustice. Black people

decades ago did similar actions like those from SNCC, the SCLC, etc. who protested injustice.

Thousands of people went into jail for civil disobedience. We know that Fannie Lou Hamer, RosaParks, Dr. King, and others were arrested for civil disobedience or violating unjust laws. We are all in

solidarity with Sister Bree. Bree is an artist and a film maker. She is also a social activist of the Black

Lives Matter Movement, which is growing every day. That’s great. Bree has promoted voting rights

and encouraged young people to vote. That is why she worked in the Moral Monday movement,

which opposed North Carolina regressive voter ID law and the evil Supreme Court decision which

struck down parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. She quoted the Psalms as she was being arrested.

The Confederate flag is a symbol of hate, bigotry, white supremacy, and treason. Therefore, we have


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the free speech and moral right to publicly oppose that flag. Hopefully, that flag will come down not

only in the South Carolina capitol grounds, but all across America.

She or Bree graduated at Oakland Mills High School in Columbia, Maryland in 2003. She created an

animated short film called “The Three Princes of Idea” while she was in high school, which earned her

a $40,000 scholarship from the National Academy of Television Arts 7 Sciences. "She was an

absolutely lovely person, so sweet, but at the same time you could tell she wasn't a pushover and she

would stand up for things that were right," Ebony Hypolite, 30, of Columbia, who graduated a year

ahead of Newsome and knew her through choir, told the Sun. "That's why her doing this is not

surprising at all." Her father is Clarence G. Newsome. Clarence Newsome is a former dean at Howard

University, a trustee of Duke University, and he’s now the President of the National Underground

Railroad Freedom Center.

It is time now to end racism, exploitation, and any form of oppression in the world. Racial oppression

and genocide is linked to the capitalist system. The class struggle is expansive and it deals with the

elimination of racism, sexism, etc. There should be no worship of material wealth, especially since

imperialism is based on the theft of resources of others for the benefit of a few. In a statement

through activist group #BlackLivesMatter, Newsome explained her actions, saying, "We can't wait any

longer." "We can't continue like this another day," Newsome said. "It's time for a new chapter where

we are sincere about dismantling white supremacy and building toward true racial justice and

equality." I agree with Bree 100 percent in her statements.

By Timothy

We will continue to advocate peace and justice. Wewill never back down and we desire social justice.


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I want to make this point too. A lot of people wantto mock those who pray (which is disrespectful).

Well, there is absolutely nothing wrong with prayerat all.

If you want to pray, then you have the right to prayand use proactive action too.

The struggle continues


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We shall overcome.

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