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enhanced_deficit
07-01-2015, 08:34 AM
While progress is being made in recent days on gay civil rights front under Obama's leadership, on race relations front things seem to be moving in opposite direction:

Greeleyville AME church seventh burned across South in wake of Emanuel shooting

Melissa Boughton
Jun 30 2015 9:25 pm Jul 1 8:15 am

http://www.postandcourier.com/storyimage/CP/20150630/PC16/150639930/AR/0/AR-150639930.jpg&maxw=800&q=90 Mount Zion AME Church in Greeleyville burned Tuesday night. It was the seventh such blaze in the South recently. Photo provided by Cheryl Oliver

UPDATE: Investigators are on scene this morning, and a press conference is set for 10 a.m. The Associated Press is reporting that a federal source says preliminary indications show the fire was not arson.
Flames engulfed a historic African-American church Tuesday night that was already destroyed once by a blaze ignited by the Ku Klux Klan in 1995.
Mount Zion AME Church in Greeleyville is the seventh black church to burn across the South (http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150630/PC16/150639941/concern-grows-as-black-churches-burn-across-south) in the wake of the killing of nine worshipers at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church.

State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel said several agents responded to the fire (https://www.facebook.com/thekingstreenews/videos/vb.525926034165343/873324342758842/?type=2&theater) and that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other federal agencies were notified. The cause was not immediately known Tuesday night.
Cezar McKnight, D-Kingstree, watched as heavy smoke billowed from the church and bright orange flames shot into the air. The church is located at 564 MacKey Road.

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150630/PC16/150639930/fire-crews-responding-to-blaze-at-african-american-church-in-greeleyville