UPDATED: Black racist shoots up Nashville church

No, we're not talking about how Dylan Roof, an avowed white supremacist shot up the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston SC, back in June of 2015. He killed nine people and wounded three others, in hopes (the state alleged) of starting a race war. Mr Roof was found competent to stand trial in federal court, and in December 2016 was convicted of 33 federal hate crime and murder charges stemming from the shooting. On January 10th of this year, he was sentenced to death.

Mr Roof was separately charged with nine counts of murder in the South Carolina state courts. This past April, he pleaded guilty to all nine state charges in order to avoid a second death sentence and was sentenced to life imprisonment for each, clearing the way for his eventual federal execution.

Mr Roof was white. His victims were black. The massacre was undoubtedly a hate crime, and rightly denounced as such by all right-thinking people (and I mean "right-thinking" in a moral, not political sense). Let us see what happens now that the roles have been reversed.

Yesterday, in Antioch TN (just down the road from Nashville), one woman was killed and seven other people were hurt after a suspect identified as a Sudanese immigrant opened fire at the predominantly white Burnette Chapel Church of Christ.

Law enforcement officials identified the the perp as Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, who immigrated, with his family, from Sudan in 1996. The family qualified as refugees from the civil war which was then (and still is) raging in that impoverished and backward country.

Mr Samson is suspected (LOL - "suspected") of bringing at least two pistols to the church, along with a ski mask which he donned before opening fire. An usher, Robert Engle, confronted the gunman at one point and was pistol-whipped, causing significant injury around his head. During the scuffle, Mr Samson too was injured. It was initially reported that he had shot himself, but police now say it might have been that his gun discharged unintentionally.

Nashville police took Mr Samson to the hospital. Following treatment he was released, and is expected to be charged with murder and attempted murder. The FBI and the US Attorney's office have opened a civil rights investigation. It is not yet clear whether the "civil rights" which may have been violated are those of Mr Samson or his victims. In today's America, who knows...

No word has reached us, yet, of demonstrations being planned by SPLC, BLM, the masked marauders of AntiFa or other SJWs.

UPDATE ADDED 30/9/17: The Washington Post reported yesterday that a note in Mr Samson's car indicated a possible plot spurred by the fatal 2015 shootings at Emanuel AME church in Charleston. Reuters tried to get confirmation or at least a comment from representatives of the US Attorney's Office, the FBI and the Nashville police. No-one would utter a word because, as we all know, racism is a white thing... only a white thing.