this weekend the st. paul ame church in jacksonville held a nd vigil for victims of this weekend s racist mass shooting in jacksonville by this man with the swastikas on his gun. i should tell you that is the same congregation, the same ame congregation that gave shelter to black men and women and kids who were hunted by the ax handle wielding mobs this same weekend 63 years ago in jacksonville in 1960. this same weekend neo-nazis spread anti-semitic flyers attacking jews again in macon, georgia. also this weekend neo-nazi group turned out in a show of force in woburn, massachusetts to menace and intimidate immigrant families living there. we are a week out from a man with a history of far right to postings on social media shooting and killing a woman in san bernadino, california because she flew a pride flag
anniversary of ax handle saturday. both of those anniversaries coincided with today s news with a young white man with swastikas etched on his ar-15 heading into a black neighborhood dollar store in jacksonville, florida and opening fire. at least according to one local official the young man told white people they should leave the store that he was about to shoot up. and then he kept shooting specifically at black people. he killed two young african a american men and an african american woman before police say he then shot himself. local authorities announced just tonight that they are finishing up going through the various racist manifestos that he left behind so they can get those released to the public in the interest of transparency. do we really need those released to the public? i do not know. we will get some expert help on
meeting to plan not just resistance but a violent counterattack to stop these kids. and we know this. there is documentary proof of it because the local klan in jacksonville at the time included one man who volunteered to be an fbi informant inside the klan and he gave the minutef of the klan meeting from august 24th, 1960, to the fbi. this meeting in which they planned to attack these young people from the naacp youth a council. the fbi then alerted the local sheriff s office that the klan was planning a violent attack. local authorities, local law or enforcement knew the whole plan in advance. they knew the klan was planning to bring hundreds of white men downtown into jacksonville the following saturday, august 27th, whereupon they would have stashed baseball bats and ax handles to use as their weapons. the informant said the klan s initial plan had been sort of theatrical.an they planned to have a white woman pretend to have been attacked by young black men who were trying to deseg
they said that the plan was to, the informant said the plan wasm to get this woman near to where the sit-in demonstration was em happening and then she would collapse and say she had been attacked and that s why she collapsed. and they thought that would give the klansmen all the cover they d need to open up the gates of hell in downtown jacksonville.le in the end though that was their plan they decided they didn t de need the pretext of the woman re pretending to be attacked, the woman pretending to collapse. the klansmen stashed ax handles and baseball bats in the bushes at a downtown jacksonville park. they went and retrieved them from that park. they handed out more of them from a vehicle, some sort of van or truck, and then these klansmen, something like 200 of them, just mauraded into downtown jacksonville and ostensibly were targeting the young people, the naacp youth council that had been carrying out the nonviolent civil disobedience at the lunch counters. but turns out the kl