The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.

A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.

“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “He wanted to kill n------.”

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    1 year ago

    Which is head-in-the-sand, “I can’t do anything about it because the other side is the problem.”

    Fascism takes over gradually, like frogs in a pot of water slowly heating.

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      fun fact: if you try to actually boil a frog, it jumps out of the pot. frogs aren’t that dumb.