Shaun King: African American churches across the United States will be on high alert not only this weekend, but for the foreseeable future. The actions of this man caused this terror to have ripple effects far beyond Charleston. Don’t call this a tragedy. A mudslide or an earthquake is tragic. An accidental house fire is tragic. Those things don’t cause people 11 states over to have genuine fear. […] This is terrorism. Dylann Roof was a racist and his actions were driven by his racism. On his jacket, in the picture above, are patches from the racist regimes of apartheid South Africa and colonial Rhodesia. This means he had a philosophy, a worldview, which celebrated the brute force and violence used against Africans on the continent. More here.