The white gunman who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend wore a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest, law enforcement sources say, a reference that has been used before during white supremacist attacks.

The patch — representing Rhodesia, a former white minority-ruled territory in southern Africa in the 1960s and ’70s that would become Zimbabwe — is yet another symbol of how the shooter, Ryan Palmeter, was racist and was influenced by racist ideology, investigators say.

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    1 year ago

    They just mixed with them and imposed their language and culture, and that’s my point later on

    Btw I could say that “native Americans aren’t natives of America, they’re Siberian dudes that crossed the Bering straight 16500 years ago”

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      Yeah we could. Except we now have good evidence for native Americans pre 16kya. But yeah, I never disagreed hahaha