Churches do not spontaneously combust when racists are angry and feeling threatened about their white supremacy, so I think we can safely say this didn't happen by itself. The Greeleysville AME church marks the seventh African-American church burning in the South since nine people in Charleston were shot for being Black. Post & Courier: Flames engulfed a prominent African-American church Tuesday night that was already destroyed once by a blaze ignited by the KKK in 1995. Mount Zion AME Church is the seventh black church to burn across the South in the wake of the killing of nine worshipers at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church and Gov.