Notre Dame Fire Gets $600M To Rebuild, Louisiana Landry Parrish Three Churches Gets Nothing, Michelle Obama Has A Best Selling Book

It seems Michelle Obama was serendipitously in Paris for the controlled burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, during her miraculous book tour, where I have yet to find one person who has purchased her book that has generated millions and millions of dollars, in venues with extreme rates of poverty, like Detroit.

It must be a pretty good book.

Perhaps, she can awe us, again, with her soothsaying skills to reassure everyone that the churches in Louisiana Landry Parish will soon awe us again.

The majesty of Notre Dame—the history, artistry, and spirituality—took our breath away, lifting us to a higher understanding of who we are and who we can be. Being here in Paris tonight, my heart aches with the people of France. Yet I know that Notre Dame will soon awe us again. https://t.co/p1mIDMbwe1

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) April 15, 2019

Perhaps, she can ask Bernard Arnault for a few pointers on rebuilding historic churches, archiving the history, since the Vatican seems to have omitted the history of black churches in the United States, but hey, what do I know.

I know she will never do it.


Suspected arsonist facing hate crime charges over Louisiana black church fires

Suspected arsonist facing hate crime charges over Louisiana black church fires originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

The man who was arrested after a string of fires left historically black churches gravely burned is now facing hate crime charges.

Holden Matthews was arrested Wednesday after investigators tied him to three church fires that spanned a 10-day period in Louisiana's St. Landry Parrish.

Matthews, the 21-year-old son of a sheriff's deputy, appeared in court in Opelousas on Monday. He entered a not guilty plea via his court-appointed lawyer.

The Associated Press reports Matthews did not speak during the hearing, which came after prosecutors filed papers to add three charges accusing Matthews of violating the state's hate crime law. Those three charges come in addition to three charges of arson of a religious building that Matthews already faced.

Holden Matthews

Matthews was denied bond on Monday, which law enforcement officials pushed for because they view him as a continued threat.

"We felt that he was an immediate risk to public safety," said Louisiana Fire Marshal Butch Browning, according to the AP.

(MORE: 'Evil acts': Deputy's son Holden Matthews arrested for 3 Louisiana church fires)

"In my mind, I felt another fire was imminent," Browning said in court Monday.

Browning made similar sentiments shortly after apprehending Matthews. During a news conference on Thursday, Browning said officials were still working to determine his motives, but added they found that Matthews had ties to "black metal and its association and history with church burnings in other parts of the world."

Black metal, a distant genre of devil-worshipping death metal music, has roots in the Norwegian heavy metal scene that reportedly was the inspiration for several church burnings in the country in the early 1990s.

(MORE: Authorities investigating fires at historically black Louisiana churches)

Matthews' father, who works for the local sheriff's department, was present at Monday's hearing. The AP said the suspect's parents watched from a video conference of the courtroom, and at one point his father was seen leaving the room in tears.

The three fires investigators tied Matthews to were all near the town of Opelousas, and no one was hurt as no one was inside any of the structures at the time of the blazes.

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