4. The Birmingham church bombing was of course carried out by white supremacist with the aim of terrorism the civil rights movement.
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5. "How did National Review cover the church bombing?" You might ask "Was it in the dispassionate way that Charen recommends?"
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6. National Review Bulletin, Oct. 1, '63: bombing set back "the cause of the white people there so dramatically as to raise the question..."
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7. "whether in fact the explosion was the act of a provocateur". So if it wasn't white people, who did set off the bomb?
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8. National Review, bomb was probably set off by "a Communist, or...a crazed Negro"
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9. There's a lot more gibberish along this line I'm not going to quote. But there's interesting echo of "crazed Negro" talk in Charleston
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10. When police released name of the suspected shooter, conservative writer A.J. Delgado said he didn't look white: https://twitter.com/SoulKhepri/status/611573810828025856 …
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11. Aside from Dalgado -- an actual published writer -- there's other chatter on twitter than Roof is "mixed" -- i.e. not really white.
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12 I feel there is a direct line between the "crazed Negro" talk of 1963 and the "doesn't look white" talk of 2015.
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13. In both cases, we have a horrible crime, something so terrible as to shake the foundational myth of white innocence.
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14. Since myth of white innocence can't be challenged, one major tactic is to jump to conclusion that it was blacks thmeselves who did this
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15. Absurd conspiracy theories of National Review 1963 & Delgado parallel other moves: deflecting conversation to "black-on-black crime"
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