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Let’s give these kids the “slow clap.” A group of teenages in the U.K. developed a new idea for an old prophylactic that we can all applaud.

Musaz Nawaz, Daanyaal Ali and Chirag Shah, students at Isaac Newton Academy in London won the top prize in the Health Category at the TeenTech Awards. The purpose of the awards challenges students to create a technology that will “make life better, simpler, or easier.” These students decided on a condom that changes color if the person has an STI, making BOTH partners aware of it.

Contest officials said, “the idea is still a concept”, but they did state that previous winners have been patented and these condoms are expected to go to market.

14-year old Ali said, “we created the S.T.EYE as a new way to STI detection to help the future of the next generation.”

The way it works is there would be a layer of molecules inside the condom that would attach to bacteria and viruses like herpes, syphilis and chlamydia. Any reaction would cause the condom to glow a specific color, depending on the infection. YIKES!

We say kudos to you kids, we believe this is the type of invention the world needs and it may save the life of someone one day.

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Their names and faces are still fresh in our minds.

Clementa Pinckney, 41, the senior pastor at the church

Sharonda Coleman Singleton, 45, an assistant pastor

Tywanza Sanders, 26

Ethel Lance, 70

Susie Jackson, 87

Cynthia Hurd, 54

Myra Thompson, 59

Daniel Simmons Sr., 74

DePayne Middleton Doctor, 49

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Pastor Pinckney has been described as an over-achiever because of this many accomplishments throughout his life. You can read his entire bio on the church’s website Emanuel Church. He was called to preach at the age of 13 and was appointed Pastor at the age of 18. Pastor Pinckney graduated magna cum laude from Allen University in Columbia, SC and had even been featured in Ebony Magazine as one of the “Top College Students in America.”

At the age of 23 he was elected to the South Carolina House of Rep and was the youngest black person to win this seat. At the age of 27 he was elevated to the State Senate.

State Senator Pinckney worked on several major causes during is run, including a more recent issue of making police wear body cameras, which he believed would protect and save many lives.

The close friends, family and politicians spoke so kindly of Pastor Pinckney. They have used words such as “gentle”, “a man of character”, “a God fearing man”, “family man” and they stated, “he had a passion for helping the poor”. Pastor Pinckney left behind his wife, Jennifer and 2 children, Eliana and Malana.

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Cynthia Hurd was the Regional Branch Manager of the Charleston County Public Library system. Library official described her loss as “imcomprehensible, and asked for prayers for her family, coworkers and church.” Hurd worked at the library for 31 years.

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Singleton was the Assistant Pastor to Senator Pinckney at Emanuel AME Church. She was also the Athletics Girls Track Coach and Speech Pathologist at Goose Creek high School. Coleman-Singleton was employed by Berkeley County for eight years. She was the mother of Chris Singleton, standout baseball and basketball star at Goose Creek High who just completed his freshman year playing baseball at Charleston Southern. She also had two other children. Coach Pond told the Gazette that Coleman-Singleton was “one of the best baseball fans you could have for your team, she loved baseball and loved Chris. She will be greatly missed.”

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Daniel Simmons Sr. was a retired Pastor in Charleston who attended Emanuel AME Church, according to his daughter-in-law, every Sunday. He was also listed as a part of Emanuel’s Ministerial Staff.

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DePayne Middleton-Doctor, according to city officials, was a retired government employee. She was the Director in Charge of Community Development Grants.

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Tywanza 26 years old and he was a part of the 2014 graduating class of Allen University in Columbia, SC where he majored in Business Admin. He was living in Columbia, but originally from Charleston, SC. He was also an aspiring rapper who went by the stage name Fresh Wanza. Allen University President described him as “quiet and well-known, and committed to his education. According to sources, Tywanza was the first to step and ask the shooter, “why are you doing this.” His mother Felicia Sanders survived the attack by pretending to be dead.

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Myra Thompson was described, according to the Post and Courier, as “a woman with a clear sense of purpose.” She, along with Pastor Pinckney, led the force to restoring and preserving Emanuel’s historic building. Thompson was a major leading in preserving the historic church and spent long hours on the project. She was 59 years old and was also the wife of a Pastor. On the Wednesday night that she was killed she had received her license to the ministry before being gunned down. Her friend described her as “a very energized, serving-God type of person.”

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Ethel Lance started working at the Gaillard Auditorium in 1968 when they first opened and stayed until retirement in 2002. Cam Patterson, the Director of the facility said, she was not only a co-worker, but a friend.” She was also a custodian at the Church for 30 years. Ms. Ethel Lance was 70 years old and raised five children in west Ashley.

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Susie Jackson, a long-time member of Emanuel had two children, but family members credit her for raising more than 50 of their families children. Family member say Sunday dinners began at Jackson’s house, often with dozens of guests. Her nephew says, “you come from out of town, this is where you come, she opened her arms to us.”

Source: WLTX, Post & Courier

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015 started out as a normal day if the beautiful city of Charleston, SC – but ended as one of those days where you never quite forget where you were, and what you were doing when you received “the news”. It’s one of those nights that will stain my mind forever. I was leaving West Ashley, which is approximately 10 minutes from downtown Charleston after picking up my niece and nephew from my parents’ house. I noticed the police cars, which is definitely not abnormal, but then as we approached I-26, we saw several fire trucks, as we drove further down I-26 we began to see even more police, even as we drove into North Charleston, police were everywhere!

I received a text from my best friend Tonyia stating that there had been a shooting in downtown and 8 people were dead. My friend lives in another state, but the way news travels I had no doubt that something had happened because of all of the police we had passed. I called my cousin Gretch and a few others and slowly the news had started to break about what was going on downtown. My cousin and I thought immediately that this was some sort of religious or terrorist attack, because the shooting didn’t happen in “the hood”, it happened in the busiest tourist section of the cities, one of the busiest tourist location in the world, We automatically thought a gunman simply took to the streets and fired away. Shortly thereafter, we found out something had happened at Emanuel AME Church, which happens to be an African Methodist Episcopal Church with significant history. My cousin and I called it right, it was definitely a terrorist attack, just not the type of terrorism we initially believed it to be.

There was still some hope that the initial rumor of 8 deceased people in a church, was simply a rumor. When the news broke that the coroner was at the scene we knew this night was not going to end well. I called my friend in DC, who’s mother attends that church and she was shocked and immediately went to check on her mom. Because my 14-year old niece and 10- year old nephew listened the entire time I was on the phone discussing these events, they had lots of questions and seemed to be concerned about the murderer still being on the loose.

As the night continued we learned that eight lives were lost in that church. They were identified as:

Honorable State Senator Clementa Pinckney, 41, the senior pastor at the church

Sharonda Coleman Singleton, 45, an assistant pastor

Tywanza Sanders, 26

Ethel Lance, 70

Susie Jackson, 87

Cynthia Hurd, 54

Myra Thompson, 59

Daniel Simmons Sr., 74 (died at the hospital)

DePayne Middleton Doctor, 49

Let’s just say the residents of Charleston didn’t get much sleep on this night. A mad man was on the loose. We were on the phone, texting, tweeting, many people went out to the crime scene to express their anger, to pray and to support the families who were being held at a location directly across the street from the church. We were pissed, we were angry, we were hurt and confused at how such a thing could happen, here in our beloved city.

The people of Charleston knew that there are at least five locations around the Emanuel Church that have cameras, We wanted things to happen fast, and we must give credit to the FBI. They did their job; by morning we had video and a description of the suspect and by mid-day on Thursday Dylann Roof was captured in Shelby, North Carolina. But this is just the beginning.

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Dylann Roof, the 21 year old white man from Lexington, SC accused of murdering 9 innocent black people at a Wednesday night Bible Study has a published manifesto online that has been discovered. Allegedly, this manifesto at TheLastRhodesian.comwas discovered along with a zip file containing the pictures seen below.

Apparently, the Trayvon Martin case is what triggered Roof to feel the hatred he has toward black and other minorities. If you are interested in reading this garbage, here you go:

I was not raised in a racist home or environment. Living in the South, almost every White person has a small amount of racial awareness, simply beause of the numbers of negroes in this part of the country. But it is a superficial awareness. Growing up, in school, the White and black kids would make racial jokes toward each other, but all they were were jokes. Me and White friends would sometimes would watch things that would make us think that “blacks were the real racists” and other elementary thoughts like this, but there was no real understanding behind it.

The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?

From this point I researched deeper and found out what was happening in Europe. I saw that the same things were happening in England and France, and in all the other Western European countries. Again I found myself in disbelief. As an American we are taught to accept living in the melting pot, and black and other minorities have just as much right to be here as we do, since we are all immigrants. But Europe is the homeland of White people, and in many ways the situation is even worse there. From here I found out about the Jewish problem and other issues facing our race, and I can say today that I am completely racially aware.

Blacks

I think it is is fitting to start off with the group I have the most real life experience with, and the group that is the biggest problem for Americans.
Niggers are stupid and violent. At the same time they have the capacity to be very slick. Black people view everything through a racial lense. Thats what racial awareness is, its viewing everything that happens through a racial lense. They are always thinking about the fact that they are black. This is part of the reason they get offended so easily, and think that some thing are intended to be racist towards them, even when a White person wouldnt be thinking about race. The other reason is the Jewish agitation of the black race.
Black people are racially aware almost from birth, but White people on average dont think about race in their daily lives. And this is our problem. We need to and have to.
Say you were to witness a dog being beat by a man. You are almost surely going to feel very sorry for that dog. But then say you were to witness a dog biting a man. You will most likely not feel the same pity you felt for the dog for the man. Why? Because dogs are lower than men.
This same analogy applies to black and White relations. Even today, blacks are subconsciously viewed by White people are lower beings. They are held to a lower standard in general. This is why they are able to get away with things like obnoxious behavior in public. Because it is expected of them.
Modern history classes instill a subconscious White superiority complex in Whites and an inferiority complex in blacks. This White superiority complex that comes from learning of how we dominated other peoples is also part of the problem I have just mentioned. But of course I dont deny that we are in fact superior.
I wish with a passion that niggers were treated terribly throughout history by Whites, that every White person had an ancestor who owned slaves, that segregation was an evil an oppressive institution, and so on. Because if it was all it true, it would make it so much easier for me to accept our current situation. But it isnt true. None of it is. We are told to accept what is happening to us because of ancestors wrong doing, but it is all based on historical lies, exaggerations and myths. I have tried endlessly to think of reasons we deserve this, and I have only came back more irritated because there are no reasons.
Only a fourth to a third of people in the South owned even one slave. Yet every White person is treated as if they had a slave owning ancestor. This applies to in the states where slavery never existed, as well as people whose families immigrated after slavery was abolished. I have read hundreds of slaves narratives from my state. And almost all of them were positive. One sticks out in my mind where an old ex-slave recounted how the day his mistress died was one of the saddest days of his life. And in many of these narratives the slaves told of how their masters didnt even allowing whipping on his plantation.
Segregation was not a bad thing. It was a defensive measure. Segregation did not exist to hold back negroes. It existed to protect us from them. And I mean that in multiple ways. Not only did it protect us from having to interact with them, and from being physically harmed by them, but it protected us from being brought down to their level. Integration has done nothing but bring Whites down to level of brute animals. The best example of this is obviously our school system.
Now White parents are forced to move to the suburbs to send their children to “good schools”. But what constitutes a “good school”? The fact is that how good a school is considered directly corresponds to how White it is. I hate with a passion the whole idea of the suburbs. To me it represents nothing but scared White people running. Running because they are too weak, scared, and brainwashed to fight. Why should we have to flee the cities we created for the security of the suburbs? Why are the suburbs secure in the first place? Because they are White. The pathetic part is that these White people dont even admit to themselves why they are moving. They tell themselves it is for better schools or simply to live in a nicer neighborhood. But it is honestly just a way to escape niggers and other minorities.
But what about the White people that are left behind? What about the White children who, because of school zoning laws, are forced to go to a school that is 90 percent black? Do we really think that that White kid will be able to go one day without being picked on for being White, or called a “white boy”? And who is fighting for him? Who is fighting for these White people forced by economic circumstances to live among negroes? No one, but someone has to.

Here I would also like to touch on the idea of a Norhtwest Front. I think this idea is beyond stupid. Why should I for example, give up the beauty and history of my state to go to the Norhthwest? To me the whole idea just parralells the concept of White people running to the suburbs. The whole idea is pathetic and just another way to run from the problem without facing it.
Some people feel as though the South is beyond saving, that we have too many blacks here. To this I say look at history. The South had a higher ratio of blacks when we were holding them as slaves. Look at South Africa, and how such a small minority held the black in apartheid for years and years. Speaking of South Africa, if anyone thinks that think will eventually just change for the better, consider how in South Africa they have affirmative action for the black population that makes up 80 percent of the population.
It is far from being too late for America or Europe. I believe that even if we made up only 30 percent of the population we could take it back completely. But by no means should we wait any longer to take drastic action.

Anyone who thinks that White and black people look as different as we do on the outside, but are somehow magically the same on the inside, is delusional. How could our faces, skin, hair, and body structure all be different, but our brains be exactly the same? This is the nonsense we are led to believe.
Negroes have lower Iqs, lower impulse control, and higher testosterone levels in generals. These three things alone are a recipe for violent behavior. If a scientist publishes a paper on the differences between the races in Western Europe or Americans, he can expect to lose his job. There are personality traits within human families, and within different breeds of cats or dogs, so why not within the races?
A horse and a donkey can breed and make a mule, but they are still two completely different animals. Just because we can breed with the other races doesnt make us the same.
In a modern history class it is always emphasized that, when talking about “bad” things Whites have done in history, they were White. But when we lern about the numerous, almost countless wonderful things Whites have done, it is never pointed out that these people were White. Yet when we learn about anything important done by a black person in history, it is always pointed out repeatedly that they were black. For example when we learn about how George Washington carver was the first nigger smart enough to open a peanut.

On another subject I want to say this. Many White people feel as though they dont have a unique culture. The reason for this is that White culture is world culture. I dont mean that our culture is made up of other cultures, I mean that our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world. This makes us feel as though our culture isnt special or unique. Say for example that every business man in the world wore a kimono, that every skyscraper was in the shape of a pagoda, that every door was a sliding one, and that everyone ate every meal with chopsticks. This would probably make a Japanese man feel as though he had no unique traditional culture.

I have noticed a great disdain for race mixing White women within the White nationalists community, bordering on insanity it. These women are victims, and they can be saved. Stop.

Jews

Unlike many White naitonalists, I am of the opinion that the majority of American and European jews are White. In my opinion the issues with jews is not their blood, but their identity. I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, then they wouldnt cause much of a problem. The problem is that Jews look White, and in many cases are White, yet they see themselves as minorities. Just like niggers, most jews are always thinking about the fact that they are jewish. The other issue is that they network. If we could somehow turn every jew blue for 24 hours, I think there would be a mass awakening, because people would be able to see plainly what is going on.

I dont pretend to understand why jews do what they do. They are enigma.

Hispanics

Hispanics are obviously a huge problem for Americans. But there are good hispanics and bad hispanics. I remember while watching hispanic television stations, the shows and even the commercials were more White than our own. They have respect for White beauty, and a good portion of hispanics are White. It is a well known fact that White hispanics make up the elite of most hispanics countries. There is good White blood worht saving in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and even Brasil.

But they are still our enemies.

East Asians

I have great respent for the East Asian races. Even if we were to go extinct they could carry something on. They are by nature very racist and could be great allies of the White race. I am not opposed at all to allies with the Northeast Asian races.

Patriotism

I hate the sight of the American flag. Modern American patriotism is an absolute joke. People pretending like they have something to be proud while White people are being murdered daily in the streets. Many veterans believe we owe them something for “protecting our way of life” or “protecting our freedom”. But im not sure what way of life they are talking about. How about we protect the White race and stop fighting for the jews. I will say this though, I myself would have rather lived in 1940’s American than Nazi Germany, and no this is not ignorance speaking, it is just my opinion. So I dont blame the veterans of any wars up until after Vietnam, because at least they had an American to be proud of and fight for.

An Explanation

To take a saying from a film, “I see all this stuff going on, and I dont see anyone doing anything about it. And it pisses me off.”. To take a saying from my favorite film, “Even if my life is worth less than a speck of dirt, I want to use it for the good of society.”.

I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.

Unfortunately at the time of writing I am in a great hurry and some of my best thoughts, actually many of them have been to be left out and lost forever. But I believe enough great White minds are out there already.

Please forgive any typos, I didnt have time to check it.

All photos courtesy of lastrhodesian.com

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I did not attend Burke High School, but I am a Charlestonian and for many reason, the entire debate regarding the future of Burke High and Middle is extremely fascinating. Growing up in Charleston, I have slowly seen the changes over the past twenty years – at least since Hugo. Our city, which has always been beautiful, has become home base for many retirees and families deciding to return to the South. With the influx of new citizens, the development of downtown Charleston For those of you who have fought the good fight, tirelessly sat through the school board meetings, protested, signed petitions, etc, it looks like there is some good news after all.

Burke, the historically black high and middle schools received some great news at last night’s school board meeting. As an update from last night’s meeting and per the email sent from the Quality Education Project, here are some updates:

1) The School board rejected the resolution to re-name Burke Middle School – “Charleston Middle School” and the issue of naming the school has to go back to the “naming committee”

2) The School board passed the QEP resolution which asks the board to keep Burke as a traditional, non-charter school

Now, these 2 small victories are not guarantees, however it appeared to everyone who attends these meetings that there was already a plan in place to make various changes to Burke High and Middle Schools. There were various proposals and changes that many parents and constituents of Charleston County claimed they had no idea who had been implementing these changes and suggestions.

It appears that the school board has heard the concerns of the community and is working to resolve some of the concerns, but only because a small group of parents, alumni, and citizens have pressured them into understanding the effects of these changes.

Dr. Millicent Brown, who was one the first Black children to integrate SC schools, spoke at a recent school board meetings and summed up her concerns perfectly. She explained to the new Principal (after he stated he didn’t care what the name of Burke Middle School was, he simply cared about the future of the children). Dr. Brown explained that his statement drew some red flags. She expressed that black Charlestonians and African-Americans in general have had a long history of whites coming in and “removing” their history. The erasing of our culture has been an ongoing problem in this country and throughout our local communities, and the need for the “new downtown residents” of Charleston to simply move into the community and decide they want to change the name of this school is simply another example of the removal of African American culture and history.

Later, the Principal apologized, stating he didn’t mean it in ‘that way’. However, I believe that Dr. Brown’s point basically puts into perspective what the alumni and parents have been trying to explain to the Charleston County School district and D20.

Again, this was small victory for many parents, teachers and alumni of Burke, but they still have a long fight ahead. The downtown communities are filling with families who are moving to the city. These families come with large wallets and they are full of new ideas, especially because they have small children and they want their children to attend the schools in the community where they reside. These new citizens have every right as tax-paying residents of the city to demand the best for their children; they also have every right to demand changes. Let’s hope that long-standing Charleston residents and parents and our new residents can come to an agreement that is beneficial for all of the children of Burke High and Middle.

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