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re: Birmingham-Southern College is shutting down; baseball team (Div III) is still playing

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Posted by TheFourHorsemen
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Posted on 5/23/24 at 10:00 am to
Also remember their students burnt 9 black churches to the ground. That is when a lot of donations stopped.
This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 12:28 pm
Posted by auisssa
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Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:31 pm to
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Also remember their students burnt 9 black churches to the ground. That is when a lot of donations stopped.


There were black and white churches. It wasn't racially motivated.

OK downvoters:

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No racial pattern
There was no racial pattern — five of the churches had white congregations and five black. All were Baptist, the dominant faith in the region, and mostly in isolated country settings.

A federal source said the apparent motive was that the three students just liked to set and watch fires.




Fires set as a joke
This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 7:06 pm
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