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\"Mourners

Mourners gathered at a memorial service for those slain at Emanuel AME church, June 18. Image courtesy ABCnews.go.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Ralph E. Stone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

June 21, 2015<\/p>\n

Everyone has now heard the news that Dylann Storm Roof, a 21-year old white supremacist, is accused of murdering nine worshippers at the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. \u00a0The\u00a0Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, the church pastor, was among the dead.<\/p>\n

When African-Americans demonstrated against police brutality and racism in Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland, and Oakland, California, they were called “thugs,” “rioters,” and “hoodlums.” \u00a0But 21-year old Roof, a white supremacist, is being referred to as a “lone wolf” and of course, he must be mentally ill.<\/p>\n

A little historic background is needed to place this awful tragedy in context. In 2011, we spent an informative week-long visit to Charleston, South Carolina when the city was observing the Civil War Sesquicentennial. \u00a0We were able to brush up on our Civil War history. \u00a0That is, mostly from a southern point of view. \u00a0Remember, Charleston was at one point the largest and most important slave port in North America.<\/p>\n

The Sesquicentennial did go out of its way to point out that Charleston’s economic and political powers were attained on the backs of thousands of slaves. \u00a0In 1860 the percentage of Southern families that owned slaves has been estimated to be 43 percent in the lower South, including South Carolina. Half the owners had one to four slaves. A total of 8,000 planters owned 50 or more slaves in 1850. \u00a0According to the 1860 U.S. census, 393,975 individuals, representing 8 percent of all U.S. families, owned 3,950,528 slaves.<\/p>\n

Our visit to The Old Slave Mart Museum reminded us of the “why” of the Civil War. \u00a0It wasn’t really about state’s rights or property rights. (Slaves, of course, were the property in question.) \u00a0No matter how you spin it, the Civil War was about the abomination called slavery. \u00a0In 1808, the U.S. banned the international slave trade, but despite government efforts about 250,000 slaves were smuggled into the U.S. from 1808 until the Civil War. \u00a0And the U.S. ban did not cover slaves born in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Charleston was a center for the buying and selling of slaves with about 40 slave marts or auction places. \u00a0By treating a race or an ethnic group as less than human, enslaving them became easier. That’s basically what happened in slaveholding states. \u00a0For example, the South Carolina Slave Code of 1740 prohibited teaching a slave to read or write, a slave could not testify in court, and a slave could be executed for plotting to run away. Slave owners came to view Blacks as lazy, mentally inferior, and naturally promiscuous. \u00a0Selling away a slave family member was viewed as only a temporary hardship for the slaves involved. \u00a0Even religious leaders preached that slaves were born to be slaves, must work hard for their masters, and never disobey, lie or steal.<\/p>\n

After the Civil War, South Carolina immediately began to establish Black Codes, which became known as Jim Crow laws after a character in a minstrel show wore black-face makeup.\u00a0 The laws were merely racism in disguise. \u00a0The state Constitution of 1865, passed only a few months after the Civil War ended, failed to grant African-Americans the right to vote. It also retained racial qualifications for the legislature. Consequently, African-Americans had no power to combat these unfair laws.<\/p>\n

During the time of segregation, South Carolina school districts considered African-American education unimportant.\u00a0 It was illegal for black and white children to attend school together and the state provided little education for African-Americans past the tenth grade. \u00a0In 1951, the\u00a0Briggs v. Elliott\u00a0<\/a><\/em>lawsuit forced the state to address the disparities and problems in funding public education. \u00a0As a result, South Carolina passed its first statewide sales tax.\u00a0The money from the 3 percent tax was dedicated to building and improving schools across the state for both African-American and white students. It was South Carolina’s attempt to build a “separate but equal” school system.\u00a0\u00a0Briggs v. Elliott<\/em>\u00a0went to the U.S. Supreme Court as one of the five cases decided in\u00a0Brown v. Board of Education<\/a><\/em>, which struck down these so called separate but equal schools as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Roof’s shootings at a church was a\u00a0symbolic attack on the heart and soul of the Black community. \u00a0The American and Confederate flags fly over South Carolina\u2019s Capitol. \u00a0The American flag is now flying at half-mast to commemorate these nine African-American lives, but the Confederate still flies high, flapping in the breeze. \u00a0As its own symbolic act, I suggest South Carolina lower the Confederate flag and toss it on the trash heap of history as a repudiation of\u00a0its role in slavery, Jim Crow laws, and segregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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