Payton Gendron (2003- ), a White American gunman, killed 10 and injured 3 last Saturday afternoon, May 14th 2022, in upstate New York at a Tops supermarket in a Black neighbourhood of Buffalo. All but two of the victims were Black. It was shown live on the Internet for a few minutes before the feed was cut.
The dead:
- Celestine Chaney, 65
- Roberta A. Drury, 32
- Andre Mackneil, 53
- Katherine Massey, 72
- Margus D. Morrison, 52
- Heyward Patterson, 67
- Aaron Salter, 55
- Geraldine Talley, 62
- Ruth Whitfield, 86
- Pearl Young, 77
Gendron drove for three and a half hours in his parents’s car to get to the place with “the highest black population percentage and isn’t that far away,” according to a 180-page online manifesto that is almost cetainly his. Buffalo is 37% Black. His home town of Conklin, also in upstate New York, is 1% Black.
The police confronted him in front of Tops, with bodies lying on the ground. He pointed his gun to his neck but police still managed to take him alive – a courtesy not always extended to Black men, even when unarmed or back turned.
The gun: a Bushmaster XM-15 semiautomatic rifle (pictured above) with the N-word and “14” written on it. The 14 is short for the 14 Words, a neo-Nazi slogan:
“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
Even though he threatened to shoot up his high school last year, he was still allowed to buy a high-powered rifle after police were sure that he was not sick in the head.
The motive: as the manifesto put it:
“To show to the replacers [= non-White people] that as long as the White man lives, our land will never be theirs and they will never be safe from us.
“To directly reduce immigration rates to European lands by intimidating and physically removing the replacers themselves.
“To intimidate the replacers already living on our lands to emigrate back to their home countries.
“To agitate the political enemies of my people into action, to cause them to overextend their own hand and experience the eventual and inevitable backlash as a result.
“To incite violence, retaliation and further divide between the European people and the replacers currently occupying European soil…
“To add momentum to the pendulum swings of history, further destabilizing and polarizing Western society in order to eventually destroy the current nihilistic, hedonistic, individualistic insanity that has taken control of Western thought.”
Great Replacement Theory, aka White genocide, is what all this is based on. As the manifesto explains:
“Millions of people pouring across our borders, legally. Invited by the state and corporate entities to replace the White people who have failed to reproduce, failed to create the cheap labor, failed to create new consumers and tax base that the corporations and states need to have to thrive.”
No longer a fringe belief: Although Gendron was mainly inspired by Brenton Tarrant, the New Zealand mosque shooter, Republican blowhards like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens push versions of this theory. According to an AP poll that came out last week, 42% of Republicans now believe in replacement theory.
– Abagond, 2022.
Sources: mainly Google Images, Heavy, AP.
See also:
- The three pillars of American white supremacy
- Great Replacement Theory
- Republicans are going over a cliff
- some other racist gunmen (not counting police officers)
- “nation of immigrants”
- The N-word
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