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“It’s Desecration, Not Vandalism”: A Longtime Congregant on the Proud Boys’ Violent Attacks on Black Churches in Washington Slate 12/15/2020 © Provided by Slate YouTube Over the weekend at a rally in Washington to protest the election results, the Proud Boys were involved in several violent incidents. Aside from some stabbings, two videos captured the moment rally goers ripped Black Lives Matter banners from two historic Black churches and burned at least one of them. Cornell William Brooks has attended one of the churches, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, since he was a child. A longtime activist, he said he was shocked by what he saw in those videos. The fourth-generation minister is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Divinity School. (He was previously president of the NAACP.) We talked on the phone this weekend about what he witnessed as a continuation of hostility toward the Black community and a “tragically poignan

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