St. Louis County NAACP President John Bowman is angry, sad and fed up.
"We cannot walk outside of our homes, you go to work, do your job, go to the grocery store without being preyed upon simply because of your color?" Bowman asked.
Thirteen people, 11 of whom were Black, were shot in a Buffalo, New York, grocery store Saturday.
"I see young, Black men getting killed for reaching for their driver's license, and here you have these guys they walked him into the imprisonment location, unharmed, unscarred," Bowman said.
The FBI is investigating the mass shooting as a hate crime by the 18-year-old suspect, who allegedly wrote and posted a 180-page document online prior to the attack, that includes ideas from the 'great replacement theory'.
'Great replacement theory' is a conspiracy theory that says there's a plot to diminish the influence of white people.
Believers say this goal is being achieved both through the immigration of nonwhite people into societies that have largely been dominated by white people, as well as through simple demographics, with white people having lower birth rates than other populations.
The conspiracy theory's more racist adherents believe Jews are behind the so-called replacement plan: White nationalists marching at a Charlottesville, Virginia, rally that turned deadly in 2017 chanted “You will not replace us!” and “Jews will not replace us!”
