Black church burns in Greeleyville, South Carolina
Another black church has been set on fire in the United States, bringing the number of African-American churches on fire to seven in the past ten days.
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville, South Carolina burned on Tuesday night.
The Clarendon County Fire Department said the incident had no injuries and the fire was under control.
The church was burned to the ground once again by white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan members in 1995.
Similar incidents were also reported in the past days after a young white man shot dead nine black worshippers at the historic black church Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal in Charleston, South Carolina two weeks ago.
The other fire incidents happened in Knoxville, Tenn., Macon, Ga., and Gibson County, in Tennessee, Charlotte, N.C., Elyria, Ohio, and Tallahassee, Fla., and Warrenville, S.C.
Officials said three of those fires have been ruled arson. One was determined to be caused by a falling branch and faulty wiring and they are investigating the others.
Williamsburg County Fire Chief Randy Swinton said the cause of the blaze is not clear.
“That was a tough thing to see… It is hurting those people again,” Williamsburg County Councilman Eddie Woods Jr. said.
“But we’re going to rebuild. If this was someone, they need to know that hate won’t stop us again,” he added.
In an interview last week, Barack Obama, who is the country’s first black president, says his country has not overcome its history of racism.
He expressed frustration with the country’s rampant gun violence and long-standing racial tensions.
"Racism, we are not cured of it," Obama said. "And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public. That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior."
Obama added that the legacy of slavery in the US "casts a long shadow and that's still part of our DNA that's passed on."
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