For content related to this article https://doi. org/10.1353/sgo. 2016.0012 https://muse. jhu. edu/article/612522 https://muse. jhu. edu/related_content? type= article&id= 612522 southeastern geographer, 56 (1) 2016: pp. 38–44 in the tradition of Black church sermons, and not at all in the tradition of American presidential speech. Reflecting on the jarring juxtaposition in that moment and the national response to the eulogy, one of the Elders noted that it was “America’s first Black funeral.” That we could elect America’s First Black President before ever experiencing America’s First Black Funeral was disorienting to me, especially juxtaposed against the relentless hegemony of what Mary Thomas (2011) has called “banal multiculturalism” that characterizes the racial and political discourse of the so-called “post-racial” New South. The observation that this was America’s First Black Funeral is more than a witty quip; it is a comment on the pervasive cultural, political and socio-economic gulf between Black and white America. This gulf is responsible for the general failure to recognize this event as an act of terrorism and an assassination of an important political leader. Indeed, the terror incited that afternoon was not targeted at our collective polity, but a very specific group of people. The location the shooter chose was likewise not fully recognized in popular media, or even in the white community of Charleston, for its