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May 16, 2021
MELANIE CAMPBELL, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND BLACK WOMEN’S ROUNDTABLE CONVENER, RELEASES STATEMENT ON THE RACIALLY MOTIVATED BUFFALO MASSACRE TARGETING BLACK AMERICANS
“Our hearts, prayers and sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of those ten people (primarily black) who were fatally shot and killed on Saturday in that unspeakable hate crime that took place at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY. No amount of words or actions can begin to replace the loss that these families have tragically experienced at the hands of a demented, racist, white nationalist and domestic terrorist.
“By all public accounts, the 18-year-old white male who committed this heinous and evil act, was radicalized, fueled, motivated and energized by white supremacist rhetoric that now openly exists throughout America in plain view as well as within the realm of social media.
“That racial hatred prompted this domestic terrorist to post his twisted views two days before the Buffalo massacre on social media in a manifesto citing the “Great Replacement” theory, a false idea that white Americans are going to be replaced with nonwhite people through immigration, interracial marriage and, eventually, violence.
