The remains of red MAGA hats used as wicks for the fire bombs?
I have no idea who is doing this, but recall black church burnings a few years back?
Turned out it was church members with scores to settle with other church members and clergy.
Before it was solved speculation was wild.
All that said, in this Trump world, I will expect anything.
I think there have been about 200 black churches burned since the 60ās.
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I donāt recall that. Do you have a source?
Of the 4,705 reported fire incidents at houses of worship between 1996 and 2015, 2,378, or 51%, had been ruled intentional (ATF). Although church burnings have decreased in the past few decades, the 1990s saw a spate of black church burnings, prompting a National Church Arson Task Force. Perps appear to be black and white, disgruntled church goers and white nationalists.
Pew has a fact summary. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/26/half-of-all-church-fires-in-past-20-years-were-arsons/
Wiki has an incomplete list of black church burnings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_against_African-American_churches
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I donāt find support for that at either of your sources. Iām really interested in this: Is there evidence that disgruntled church goers have set fires in predominantly black churches?
Anyone?
The hate has already been identified. Thatās why DHS closed down its monitoring of domestic right-wing hate groups, which makes sense considering they werenāt finding the right color of suspects.
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Violent racism is alive and well in Louisianaā¦thank you Mr. Trump. Where can I send a modest contribution to these churches?
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Iāll have to google it.
I googled āblack church burnings in the 1990āsā and got a bunch of hits.
Iām not going to read them all. One by WashPo says almost all done by whites ā no surprise.
I recall one set done by disgruntled black church members.
You have to dig down to find the perps (if arrested).
The Pew summary doesnāt address this much.
Look at the last entry on the Wiki ref for one example
2016 November 1 The 111-year-old Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, was burned and vandalized with the words āVote Trumpā spray-painted onto the building. The arsonist is a black man who is a member of the church and pled guilty in March 2019
JACKSON, Miss. ā A member of a black church in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to burning the church
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mississippi-man-pleads-guilty-in-vote-trump-church-arson/2019/03/28/88351304-51c1-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html?utm_term=.fcfe0d4b231d