The racist murders in Jacksonville didn’t happen in a vacuum. Words matter | Rev William Barber
by Reverend William Barber from US news | The Guardian on (#6E8SY)
Angela Michelle Carr, Jerrald Gallion and Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr were shot to death in Florida by a man reportedly steeped in the rhetoric of hate
Words of hate create an ethos of hate, an atmosphere of hate, a political, social Petri dish of hate. Eventually, spoken words become deeds.
On Saturday those deeds were the racist murders of Angela Michelle Carr, Jerrald Gallion and Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, by a man who hated Black people", according to the local sheriff.
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