The article by Eoin Higgins named Just another instance of white terrorism based on the church shooting in South Carolina that was a church visited by the African race the most. A white man is arrested, and he is held responsible. This happened in the year 2015. This incident marked the importance and value of the life of an African American resident in America. The shooter Dylann Roof was just another case of the hatred and instance of white terrorism against the black race in America. This incident is an example of the callousness and the hatred against the black race and to gun down people inside a church is simply unacceptable. This incident would make the black race still feel that they are left with the people who were supposed to be killed, but their lives were spared by a more superior, white person. This led to a movement called Black Lives Matter which was an answer to the carelessness and lack of importance that white citizens give to the black race. This movement calls for recognizing the importance of their lives and that they are just as important in America as the white people. Black people are being criminalized in the media and are shown as less desirable and troublesome folk in America. They are shown as criminals on television. Every other race in America is being cultured to think of blacks as criminals and thugs. This is the real terrorism. They are stereotyped as drug addicts, children that are used to playing with toy guns, and they are just at the hands of the white race to face violence. White Americans won’t be questioned on the streets, and they will not be stopped by the police but an African American will. Even in church, the African American community cannot feel safety and protection. The reason for this inequality is the subconscious white supremacy that still hovers in the minds of the people and even after slavery has ended these people are thought as slaves and are treated as inferior citizens because of the color of their skin. The shooting in the church is just another incident where the blacks have been targeted, and it is prone to happen again. (Higgins).
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eoin-higgins/just-another-instance-of-_b_7618822.html
References
Higgins, Eoin. Just another instance of white terrorism. The Huffington Post. 2015. Web. 11
