Why Gun Reform Will Not Stop What Happened in South Carolina


dylann.roof.emmanuel.church.south.carolina.white.supremacist.confederate.flag_occupycorporatismSusanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
June 20, 2015

 

This past weekend two pastors met outside the Emmanuel AME Church in South Carolina – the scene of a recent horrific hate crime that claimed the lives of 9 black residents.

Reverend Kyle Kneen (who is white) from Oregon and Pastor Dimas Salaberrios (who is black) from New York came to Charleston because their religious adherence trumps the color of their skin.

Salaberrios said: “I’m a follower of Jesus Christ. I’m an African-American second.”

While the blatant racism of the hate crime is evident to most, politicians have chosen to use this tragedy as a way to push agendas.

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton told the audience at the Conference of Mayors that the US needs “common sense” gun regulations because of the “persistent problem of institutionalized racism.”

Clinton said: “The politics on this issue have been poisoned, but we can’t give up. The stakes are too high. The costs are too dear.”

The former secretary of State suggested that criminals and the mentally ill be restricted from obtaining certain guns, and stressed how the federal government needs to “respect responsible gun owners” and their 2nd Amendment rights.

And while President Obama said at the same conference that gun reform was necessary, he also acknowledged that gun laws “wouldn’t have prevented every act of violence or even most. We don’t know if [gun reform] would have prevented what happened in Charleston.”

Obama’s words ring true because taking guns or restricting fire arm purchases does not address the actual problem.

A symbol of the real issue that fuels hate crimes such what happened in Charleston, is the Confederate flag which still flies over the South Carolina state congressional building.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley pointed this out in a recent speech about the “need … to come together” after the murder of 9 black residents.

The Confederate flag that has been popularized and become a standard in historical recognition is called the Southern Cross . This flag was carried by Confederate soldiers and placed in to stand during battles with Union troops.

This flag was representative of the Army of Northern Virginia and used in battle until 1861, when the Confederacy was defeated.

The stars within the Southern Cross represent the 14 states of the Confederate States of America, those states who seceded from the Union during the Civil War.

The Southern Cross was designated as the flag of war by William Porcher Miles, chairman of the Confederate Congress and supported by Confederate General Joseph Johnson.

Flying the Southern Cross over the congressional building in South Carolina is symbolic of the underlying mindset of racial divide within the state.

Senator Lindsey Graham defended the Southern Cross as “part of who were are” as Southerners.

But in all honesty, the German people, while recognizing their momentary lapse of Nazism, are not boastful of this terrible time in history. Why would Graham suggest that Southerners claim their momentary lapse of slavery be celebrated as part of their grand history?

The Southern Cross represents slavery, torture, murder and a war that Confederates fought in order to retain plantation owners right to enslave Africans rather than pay them as employees – as was being done in the Northern states.

In essence, this flag represents a bad idea that has been used by white supremacist organizations such as the Klu Klux Klan and Jim Crow who have popped up since the end of the Civil War because while the implementation of slavery has been socially and legally prohibited, there are those who want to return the South to her former glory.

And this includes the re-enslavement of blacks, Hispanics and any other minorities.

In 1861, Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederates of America, said during his “cornerstone” speech that this new government was “founded upon … its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”

This problem cannot be fixed by gun reform. They will simply find another weapon to use because it is the ideology that motivates white supremacists to commit violent acts against minorities.

This is true because as of last year there are 784 active hate groups in the US and 19 of them are in South Carolina; including 2 factions of the Klu Klux Klan and the League of the South .





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