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Podcast: Myth in the Mojave
Episode: Myth, Murder, and the Other in South Carolina
Description: “He who tells the stories rules the world.” Hopi proverb On June 17, 2015, nine black Americans were murdered during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. A young white man named Dylann Storm Roof killed them because he believes that “Blacks are taking over the world and someone has to do something about it for the white race.” In the aftermath of this tragedy, this insanity – two questions come to the forefront: why did it happen and what can I, can we, do to prevent racial violence, bridge the divide, and heal with Jo...