X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:41:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Re: List of Black Churches Burned and comment >From Alan Spector, REVS editor: Another comment on the church burnings in the U.S. I thought that these might be particularly useful for those outside the U.S. who are not getting much information on this. On the other hand, those of us in the U.S. are also not getting much accurate information on this either....... ------------------------------ The reporter who is the point man on the invesitgation of the church bombings is Dennis Bernstein who is with the Pacifica radio network. He is based at KPFA in Berkeley, Ca. He states that the number of black churches bombed is grossly understated. Every year there are a number of churches bombed or burned. They are both black and white. The bombings and burnings of black churches that has been going on over the past three years is far beyond what can usually be expected in the same period. When both black and white churches are considered, the white churches Jerry is talking about represent a small persentage. He is hot the most accurate source of information of the issues that face black people. I saw him on Ted Koppel's show once with Jesse Jackson and jerry's perception of what was happening to people in South Africa under apartheid was so far off the mark that it seemed he was brain damaged. Perhaps he is. Anyway, there are over 100 black churches in Florida alone in the last year that have been destroyed. If that were true of white churches the state would be flooded with FBI agents. The burning of black churches warrants only an investigation by the ATF agency which happened to have a GOOD OLD BOYS CONFERENCE recently where they displayed and sold all kinds of racist T-shirts and posters along with KILL-A-NIGGER licenses. Jerry is just another type of "good old boy". We need to ask why the Government is not getting the best to investigate these burnings. ===========================