The Civil War’s most recent battle
Another sincere tribute to this country’s tradition of white supremacist terrorism:
A white gunman wearing a tactical vest barged into a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday and fatally shot three Black people in an attack that the authorities said they were investigating as a hate crime.
The gunman, who has not been publicly identified and was described as being in his early 20s, died after shooting himself, Sheriff T.K. Waters of Jacksonville said at a news conference on Saturday evening.
“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” Sheriff Waters said.
The rampage on Saturday was the latest high-profile racially motivated attack carried out by a white gunman in the United States.
A shooting last year that targeted Black people left 10 dead at a supermarket in Buffalo. And in 2019, an attack at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killed 22. The gunman in that shooting told the police he wanted to kill Mexicans.
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The authorities said the gunman was armed with an AR-15-style rifle that bore swastika markings, as well as a handgun.
I’m sure that when Florida bans any mention of race in any educational institution in the state it will quickly solve this problem.