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Social Media Reacts to the Charleston Shooting, Asking ‘Where Can We Be Black?

From Solange Knowles to Taylor Swift

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People took to social media to express sadness and outrage at yet another tragedy that police were investigating as a racially motivated hate crime, after a white gunman killed nine people in a historically black church in South Carolina Wednesday night.

Celebrities spoke out:

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As did politicians:

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