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Reverend William Barber

The racist murders in Jacksonville didn’t happen in a vacuum. Words came first

A white or Latino man wearing a cowboy hat kneels amid hand-made crosses bearing the names of the victims, in a grove of trees, and appears to be lighting a candle in one of several paper bags.
‘If this event surprised you, you’re not paying attention.’ Photograph: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

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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