From March 26th to April 4th 2019 three black churches in Louisiana were torched by "MAGA brownshirt" Holden Matthews. Matthews apparently decided he would be Making America Great Again by going for the white southern tradition of burning black churches.
It would seem that burning black churches isn't confined to the KKK's reign of terror during the civil rights era. It predates the civil war. Which is worse than I would have thought but I can't say that I am surprised by any stretch. It wasn't relegated to the south either, between 1825-1850 six black churches were repeatedly attacked in Philadelphia. Then there were the Cincinnati Race Riots of 1829.
Vice President Pence drew the short straw and went to Louisiana to visit the community but it was a little too late. Pence is a conservative fundamentalist christian so he's not a big fan of black people. That must have stung when he had to go out there. Matthews is being charged with hate crimes, though there are no domestic terrorism charges as of now and make no mistake Matthews is a domestic terrorist, with trial set for September. I hope he goes away for a long time.
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