Morning Briefing: Black Community in Buffalo Still 'Grappling' on Anniversary of Tops Friendly Market Mass Shooting by White Supremacist
Morning Briefing: Black Community in Buffalo Still 'Grappling' on Anniversary of Tops Friendly Market Mass Shooting by White Supremacist
On the anniversary of the mass shooting by a White Supremacist at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, 'many young Black people in Buffalo are grappling' with how their community was targeted.
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Morning Briefing: It has been one year since a White Supremacist shot and killed 10 people at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, and “many young Black people in Buffalo are grappling with a shaken sense of personal security and complicated feelings about how their community was targeted.”
The family members of the several of the victims of the Tops Friendly Market shooting have “ filed a lawsuit against social media companies that they allege facilitated the shooter’s white supremacist radicalization and gave him a platform to broadcast the violent massacre.”
The so-called “great replacement” theory, a racists conspiracy theory promoted by White Nationalists, “has inspired many other attacks carried out by white extremists against people of color, immigrants, Jewish people and Muslims.”
Hundreds of members of Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, “were monitored by the police as they paraded through the National Mall in Washington D.C.”
The Masjid Al Sunnah Mosque in St. Paul, Minnesota was vandalized, which is reportedly the “fifth time someone vandalized a Minnesota mosque so far this year.”
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Amanda Moore writes that “there is an appeal to being viewed as the cool kids, especially within an organization whose membership includes people as young as 18. Where is the fun in being a moderate Republican without controversy when you can be a scandal-laden Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.)? Who wants to tweet with decorum to 100 followers when you can sling insults at everyone you disagree with, wracking up tens of thousands? Earlier this year, the D.C. Young Republicans voted in leadership that mimics the NYYRC model. Now George Santos attends its events and its Twitter seems to primarily exist to lob insults at everyone who crosses them. One source familiar with the D.C. Republican scene said all the staffers and ‘adult’ GOP members they know are staying away from the D.C. YRs—’which tells you how useful they are pursuing good policy.’ The NYYRC model might be appealing to those who seek out personal fame over effective leadership, but it’s driving away anyone who finds the bullying repulsive.” [Daily Dot]
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Very sad state of our country...and frightening.