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The American "New Yorker" magazine revealed that the shooting that took place indiscriminately in a shopping center that killed at least ten people in a predominantly black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, reveals the rise of racism and political violence in the United States. .
The magazine pointed out that a teenage shooter expressed in a statement his racist motives and beliefs about the superiority of whites over those of African descent, and his words were filled with hate. From the fringes of far-right politics to mainstream Republican Party politics.
The magazine added that, prior to the shooting, the perpetrator searched for the largest gathering of black people to be able to kill as many of them, and his search led him to a store on the east side of New York City along the Jefferson Avenue commercial corridor that passes through the heart of "Black Buffalo" to highlight the massacre Buffalo not only because of the death toll but because of the political nature of the attack as it exposed the increasing normalization of racism and political violence in the country.
The magazine added: The shootings merged with the lives of Americans in the United States, and according to the "Gun Finance Archive", there were about two hundred shootings, including at least four victims who were shot or killed.
According to a recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2019 to 2020, the overall rate of homicides involving the use of a firearm increased by about 35 percent.
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