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Supermarket because they were black. think back to 2015 in charleston, south carolina, my home state, where nine innocent worshippers at mother emanuel, emanuel ame church were killed because they were black. so today is the actual anniversary, 60th anniversary of the march on washington. yesterday was another anniversary in jacksonville. it s the anniversary of something that is locally called ax handle saturday, and what happened was on august 27th, 1960, a group of young, mostly students who were conducting a sit-in to protest a segregated lunch counter were attacked by a white mob bearing baseball bats and ax handles, and when the police finally intervened, they intervened on the side of a white mob, and arrested the black victims rather than the ....

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