The judge who called for sympathy for shooter Dylann Roof’s family members has a history of racist language in the courtroom.
Charleston County Magistrate James B. Gosnell began Friday’s bond hearing for mass-murderer Dylann Roof by declaring that the killer’s family members were victims as well.
At least he did not repeat an opinion that he offered in another proceeding a dozen years ago.
“There are four kinds of people in this world—black people, white people, red necks, and n—rs,” Gosnell advised a black defendant in a November 6, 2003 bond reduction hearing.
The comment led to a judicial disciplinary proceeding and a 2005 determination by the state Supreme Court. The court’s written finding reports Gosnell’s lame defense.
“[Gosnell] represents he knew the defendant, the defendant’s father, and the defendant’s grandfather,” the finding notes. “[Gosnell] represents that when the defendant, an African-American, appeared in court for the bond hearing, [Gosnell] recalled a statement made to him by a veteran African American sheriff’s deputy.”
If anybody deserves death for what he did it’s this creature.
found this at POU:
Painful to read. She is so on point!
Do you believe that the parents of the two boys that shot up the school in Colorado should be held responsible for what those two boys did. It’s a tough one.
Shaun King @ShaunKing
The #GoHomeDeray hashtag, which has been a top trend nationwide for over 14 hours, is despicable & cowardly.
It also has deep racist roots:
https://twitter.com/Dirk2112/status/612790420767174656/photo/1
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/612786966061543424
skeptical brotha @skepticalbrotha
They’ll praise Nikki Haley because they can’t admit that White Supremacy is a problem, and if they did, they don’t have a single solution.
from POU:
https://twitter.com/jazziz2/status/612764072359108608
Jeanne K. @SnarkAmendment 2h2 hours ago
Remember @martinbashir only offended Sarah Palin and got fired.
Chuck Todd just offended half the country. #FireChuckTodd
https://twitter.com/splcenter/status/612748927637540864/photo/1
Great sign in this photo: “Time to Tread of White Supremacy” :
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIDrfWrUwAA8wgH.jpg
https://twitter.com/FreeLaddin/status/612364755634819072/photo/1
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015
WARN
He is Not a Twenty-First Century White Supremacy ‘Mindweapon’: The ‘Last Rhodesian’ Dylann Roof’s ‘Manifesto’ is Tedious, Boilerplate, White Supremacist Claptrap
THIS:
There is a furious effort now on the part of the so called mainstream media, to blunt the racism angle of this shooting, which really is the only angle, to avoid having the discussion that needs to be had. Yes, guns are a problem. But racism is an even bigger problem; its the catalyst for the devastating use of guns in a lot of cases. Racism was the focus of the Charleston killer. He wasn’t there to make a statement on the second amendment or gun rights, he was there to kill black people for being black, to start a race war.
If anything, what the media needs to be exploring are the beliefs of people like Roof. Where do they come from? Why do they persist in believing things that are not true, in order to keep alive the hatred that seems to be the only thing that really animates them politically? If they were going to air a segment, why not air one of white male killers, who are damn near the sole perpetrators of mass killing, and ask them why they did it?
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/612749023682953216
Here is the Southern Poverty Law Center’s article of the Council of Conservative Citizens:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/council-of-conservative-citizens
Excerpt:
https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/612726881348153344
From TOD:
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/06/21/happy-fathers-day-a-sweet-image-to-warm-the-heart/#comment-1347154
https://twitter.com/EdgeofSports/status/612709242974416896
Reposting this here;
If anything, what the media needs to be exploring are the beliefs of people like Roof. Where do they come from? Why do they persist in believing things that are not true, in order to keep alive the hatred that seems to be the only thing that really animates them politically? If they were going to air a segment, why not air one of white male killers, who are damn near the sole perpetrators of mass killing, and ask them why they did it?
https://twitter.com/BaisdenLive/status/612472868568301568/photo/1
The Slaves Singing @williamcson 3m3 minutes ago
At some point we have to realize the White dominated media knows exactly what it’s doing & intends to antagonize us. It’s done on purpose.
Twitter GOING IN on Chuck Todd’s ASS
I had to get away this weekend, to regroup.
I come back and see the FUCKEERY continues with the RACIST ASS MEDIA.
PragmaticObotsUnite @PragObots
hope @MichaelEDyson is as vocal about Chuck Todd’s racial tone deafness as he was about PBO’s #AMEShooting statement https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/612706221980798976 …
https://twitter.com/faobobindc/status/612707478539612160
Dan Cohen @dancohen3000
Confederate flag on display in Jerusalem #sharedvalues pic.twitter.com/tPIrZWEbW8
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Right Wing Media and Their “Racialized Political Fodder”
In what is purported to be Dylann Roof’s “manifesto,” he writes that this is where it all began:
The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens.
Reading that reminded me of how Ta-Nehisi Coates had meticulously laid out the process by which the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman became “racialized political fodder” for right wing media.
There you have it, folks. Because President Obama simply said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” the right wing media in this country went into a frenzy. That’s when they got Roof’s attention. The rest was up to the white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2015/06/right-wing-media-and-their-racialized.html
Look at this. Maybe they should have taken down the flag when they were asked to politely.
https://twitter.com/JOBoomr/status/612662982129123337
BWD @theonlyadult
Hey @MHarrisPerry & @MichaelEDyson how about instead of blaming Obama for everything, you’ll go after birther, white supremacist @chucktodd
Milt Shook @MiltShook
Who the FUCK at @NBCNews thought this was a great idea? http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/wtf-nbcs-chuck-todd-airs-color-blind-segment-with-all-black-shooters-to-address-charleston-massacre/ … Heads should roll with this one. #tonedeaf #braindead
Asolutely shameful, but then we should NOT be surprised at the levels to which these cable networks have sank to.
They have taken Fox’s lead on catering to the racists, ignorant midnset of the GOP base and doing the bidding of their benefactors, the KOCH BROTHERS.
raemd95 @raemd95
If #ChuckTodd is just going to make up stuff, NBC should just bring back #BrianWilliams as Moderator of #MeetThePress
Hmmm @EthanObama
Slave owner kills nine slaves but Chuck Todd runs a segment on runaway slaves stealing hot apple pies off the window sill.
https://twitter.com/crooksandliars/status/612687581042487296/photo/1
We’re grieving 9 people shot dead by a white supremacist while in Bible Study & Chuck Todd does a segment on black shooters. White supremacy won’t even let us grieve in peace.
For the love of all that is HOLY…Take Chuck Todd OFF THE TV.
uh huh
uh huh
Damn, just DAMN. MSNBC & Todd need a MAJOR ass-whooping for this attempt at DISTRACTING from that mass murderer Dylan Roof. MAJOR.
MHP: Charleston attack was ‘an act of racial terror’
“To walk into the womb of Mother Emanuel, to worship for an hour with her people, to take their lives in calculating, cold blood, is to strike at the very heart of the black American struggle for freedom,” says Melissa Harris-Perry
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry
Precious Lord take my hand:
http://imgick.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width620/img/opinion_impact/photo/18139498-mmmain.jpg
https://youtu.be/tJ3HZEoAJRo&rel=0
uh huh
uh huh
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How Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church Triggered White Southern Militarism
ByBENJAMIN PARK
Published JUNE 18, 2015, 12:21 PM EDT
Last night, a white man (suspected to be 21-year-old Dylann Roof) entered the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, sat through an hour-long meeting, and then opened fire on those in attendance. Reverend Clementa Pinckney, a state senator, was among nine individuals who were killed. Many are shocked at not only the grisly nature of the shooting, but also its location.
“There is no greater coward,” Cornell William Brooks, president of the N.A.A.C.P, declared in a statement, “than a criminal who enters a house of God and slaughters innocent people engaged in the study of scripture.”
This experience is unfortunately far from new: While black churches have long been seen as a powerful symbol of African-American community, they have also served as a flashpoint for hatred from those who fear black solidarity, and as a result these edifices have been the location for many of our nation’s most egregious racial terrorist acts.
Further, the very spot of land on which the Emanuel Church is built has witnessed much of this sobering history. In the summer of 1822, white residents of Charleston discovered that one of their worst fears had come true: a slave conspiracy to rise against their masters and slaughter all white residents was afoot in the city. The accused ringleader, Denmark Vesey, was a former slave who had been a free carpenter in Charleston for two decades. His insurrection was supposedly planned to take place on July 14—Bastille Day. Once the plot was uncovered, however, authorities were swift with retaliation: 131 men were charged with conspiracy, 67 were convicted, and 35, including Vesey, were hanged. While historians today debate the extent of the conceived rebellion, the event proved formidable in confirming southern angst over an “internal enemy,” and white supremacists knew they had to respond quickly and violently.
That Vesey was one of the founders of the Emanuel Methodist Episcopal Church was no mere coincidence. To those who pushed prosecution, the church was central to the conspiracy. The year prior, city officials had closed the church because they feared it was breaking slave codes concerning unsupervised black gatherings after sunset and the law against teaching slaves to read. Charleston authorities depicted Vesey’s frustrations over their suppression of church activities as one of his three primary motivations. (The other two were the Haitian Revolution and the debates over the Missouri Compromise.) The punishment for these sins was the noose.
In the wake of the suppressed rebellion, Charleston lawyer Edwin Holland specifically blamed black churches. These preachers, he accused, carried “the Sacred Volume of God in one hand” while spreading ideas “of discord and destruction, and secretly disperse among our Negro Population, the seeds of discontent and sedition” with the other. The city decided the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which attracted nearly 2,000 congregants, was the problem. New draconian measures were instituted that banned religious services without a white person present. The AME Church, only built four years previously, was then burned to the ground even as the conspirators were hung from the sky.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/emanuel-ame-church-south-carolina-shooting-history-vesey-citadel
twitter truth
https://twitter.com/Marmel/status/612377291826442240
and that rat bastard had help and directions. Who took the photos of him?
https://twitter.com/deray/status/612598826411626496/photo/1
h/t TOD
Arriving at Charleston’s Emanuel AME this morning
Amk: ‘The one who has seen it all, and the one who hopefully won’t’
Movingly powerful!
why this picture touches me:
it’s the timelessness of it. the little girl, in her afropuffs and summer dress..outside of the color of the shoes…they probably would have been black when I was growing up, but that dress, could have come from anytime in the past 40 years. And, the Elder with his white gloves….he could have been standing there today, 20 years ago, 40 years ago, 60 years ago…
this has always been our community…and we know it down to our soul.
This picture is so beautiful and so well thought out that it looks like a painting.
Echoeing Rikyrah’s sentiments. This photo right down to the wooden doors could have been my church, me and my daughters all could have been this little girl.
And our wise Elders, deacons…..
POWERFULLY PROFOUND.
X @XLNB
The media blamed Trayvon and Mike Brown’s parents, but #DylannRoof family are somehow the victims. #no
Joshua L. @theuppitynegro
Jake Tapper don’t understand black church. Said he don’t get why they singing uplifting gospel music.
pril @ReignOfApril 11m11 minutes ago
April retweeted Ray Childress
I’m unavailable for your ignorance today. Leave a message at my middle finger. I’m so stealing this line.
April added,
Ray Childress @CotorraBooks
@ReignOfApril So funny that ppl got a problem with #RachelDolezal identifying herself as black, but #CaitlynJenner is ok as a woman #Doyou
https://twitter.com/ManOnTheRadio/status/612601549127180289/photo/1
Praise God for this child’s understand and artistic talent.
So wonderfully uplifting!
OMG. I just lost it. *** tears ***
Lord…. And the children, they shall lead the way.
https://twitter.com/BlkHistStudies/status/612191805615009792/photo/1
Found at POU:
Chokie TOAD attempted to erase & whitesplain that murdering racist who terrorized and massacred 9 black PRAYING church-goers, by featuring blacks who murder on a Sunday morning talk show that caters to white folks.
SOUNDS LIKE FOX doesn’t it?
guess who is trying to erase their cyber footprint?
…………………….
After the Discovery of Dylann Roof’s Website, the Council of Conservative Citizens Is Running Scared
By Charles Johnson
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Share0As we noted in our previous article about the discovery of Dylann Storm Roof’s website, Roof credited the white supremacist group called the Council of Conservative Citizens with “awakening” him to “black on white crime,” and inspiring him to start out on the murderous racist path that led him to the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
Following the exposure of Roof’s “manifesto” (and “manifesto” is too grandiose a term for what’s really just a racist rant), the Council of Conservative Citizens apparently took down their entire website; if you go to topconservativenews.com or conservative-headlines.com (the deceptively innocuous-sounding names for their hate site) you see nothing but a blank white screen at the moment. But Google’s cache still has a copy of their post trying to distance themselves from Dylann Roof — with hundreds of evil, racist comments.
And now we’ve learned (via @MelioraMed) that one of the CCC’s main spokesmen on Twitter, Kyle Rogers (@kylerogers76), an overt racist with nearly 40,000 followers, has also deleted his Twitter account. If you click that link to his username you’ll see: “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”
Here’s what his profile page looked like a few days ago, from Google’s cache:
Read more at http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/44745_After_the_Discovery_of_Dylann_Roofs_Website_the_Council_of_Conservative_Citizens_Is_Running_Scared#wwq1exCqxPV7JjhB.99
The Daily Edge @TheDailyEdge 11h11 hours ago
When @JebBush wanted to remove it, @MarcoRubio co-sponsored “Confederate Flag Bill” in Florida http://www.huffingtonpost.com/… …
Compartmentalizing Slavery
How white Americans constructed a fictitious distinction between white and black emotions.
By Heather Andrea Williams
This article supplements Episode 3 of the History of American Slavery, our inaugural Slate Academy. Please join Slate’s Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion for a different kind of summer school. To learn more and to enroll, visit Slate.com/Academy.
Excerpted from Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams. Published by The University of North Carolina Press.
Their griefs are transient. Those numberless afflictions, which render it doubtful whether Heaven has given life to us in mercy or in wrath, are less felt, and sooner forgotten with them. In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection.
—Thomas Jefferson, president and slave owner
There was certainly no monolithic white response to the separation of slave families. Certainly white abolitionists abhorred slavery, and many agreed with Harriet Beecher Stowe that family separation was one of its most repulsive features; but even some of them questioned black people’s ability to feel deeply.
It is fair to say that most white people had been so acculturated to view black people as different from them that they did not perceive the existence of slavery in America as a problem, and when exposed to slaves, they barely noticed the pain that they experienced. These whites compartmentalized their lives and experiences, putting themselves and other whites into one sphere and enslaved people or even free black people into another. It did not even occur to them that emotions experienced in the white sphere could also be experienced by the enslaved people.
Sarah Brownrigg Sparkman, for example, could listen to the 91 enslaved people she took to Mississippi express their concerns about leaving their loved ones behind yet speak of them as being cheerful, childlike, and without a care. She did not layer their concern and anxiety over their curiosity and awe; instead she saw only one dimension. When she wrote of the enslaved people singing into the night even though they had to walk for miles the next day, she did not consider whether, as Frederick Douglass believed, “The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart and is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.” She could not see that the slaves who sang together at night may have done so in part to soothe themselves and to hold their community together. She also did not seem to notice if some people were too sad to participate in the singing, or whether Rose had wandered off alone to grieve for her husband, whom she had left behind in North Carolina. These details eluded Sparkman even as she wrote about missing her own relatives; she was able to see only simple-minded people who were able to walk all day and stay up all night enjoying themselves.
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/how_white_people_justified_and_struggled_with_separating_slave_families.html?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5581486b04d301750d000001&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
The confederate flag represents a evil part of history.
It stands for unspeakable violence against Blacks, heinous oppression, opposition against civil rights, and deep racist hatred.
TAKE IT DOWN!
https://twitter.com/Luvvie/status/612243244328579072
twitter truth
https://twitter.com/UltraVerified/status/612368859216113664
https://twitter.com/Gus_802/status/612371515351281664
https://twitter.com/Luvvie/status/612238933607452672
PAUL MOONEY Black Criminals vs White Criminals
https://youtu.be/OeGXfVRVhZg
https://twitter.com/kasie19RU/status/612416680690585600/photo/1
I’m damn tired of the FBI Director feeding the public BS on who’s a fucking terrorist. Racism is rampant all the way to top levels of GOVERNMENT!
H/T LGF commenter
Wow! Mike Huckabee once addressed Council for Conservative Citizens that inspired #DylannRoof #CharlestonShooting pic.twitter.com/ECFECwQNp6
— Muck Raker (@VoteMuck) June 20, 2015
On Lamh’s blog,
I decided to read a majority white space – Gawker to see the evaluation after the manifesto and this comment proves Lamh assessment on point
Brendan O’Connor
6/20/15 11:47am
This is honestly frightening to me. Because a lot of people I know wouldn’t exactly disagree with his opinions of black people/asian people/white people.
I’ve had family members say with absolute certainty that whites were more evolved from blacks. Why? Because blacks are able to run faster and jump higher because of evading animals, while white people aren’t able to do that because we “evolved” beyond the need to. They believe adaptation=evolution. They viewed white people as genetically superior.
It’s sad that I have family members, people I know and love, who would probably agree with everything he said in that manifesto if I didn’t tell them who wrote it.
These ideas aren’t radical, these thoughts aren’t extremist, or delusional, or rare. The south is ripe with people who actually wholeheartedly agree to these ideas, because that is what they were told by their parents, who were told by their parents, who grew up in the time where black people were hanged in the streets. Where black people had their houses, their places of worship set on fire just for existing NEAR the white neighborhoods.
The adults, the grandparents, the NEWS are teaching children, teens, and young adults that black people DESERVE to die because of their actions. If Fox News has the BALLS to tell me that this was not an attack based on race, then Fox News needs to admit that they are the problem. They REFUSE to talk about race because they do not want to think that this is THEIR issue.
Racism is alive and well in the south. Racism is alive and well in the media. It is coddled with a warm familiarity by so many people. They don’t want to admit that they are the problem. That the STEREOTYPES they perpetuate have MURDERED 9 people in a Church. 9 people who accepted him when he entered and did not turn him away, 9 people who prayed with him before he murdered their friends and their family.
The family of the victims forgive him because they know this is not an issue originating from him. This is an issue bigger than any snot-nosed 21 year old brat. This is an issue that stems from the media’s portrayal of black people.
Lamh is correct and it makes me shudder.
Now it the time for all good people and I mean ALL to get involved and push back!
From Tim Wise’s article “The Heritage of Hate: Dylan Roof, White Supremacy and the Truth About the Confederacy” :
http://www.timwise.org/2015/06/heritage-of-hate-dylann-roof-white-supremacy-and-the-truth-about-the-confederacy/
Pedantic Professor @pedanticprof 6h6 hours ago
Conflating racism with mental illness absolves society of its responsibility while stigmatizing the mentally ill.
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/612401523776073728/photo/1
Photo by Deray at protest against confederate flag:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CH-k012WIAEcnrv.jpg
My gut feeling is that if we were allowed to see pictures of that crime scene, this whole thing would be over with pretty quickly. There wouldn’t be a Rebel flag left in the entire nation. And a few other things might move along more quickly as well.
Why have folks got to protest and beg for a dignified response after a massacre? For God’s sake, where is the humanity?
Just tweeted this
Website features racist manifesto, photos of Charleston shooting suspect
Manifesto said author ‘chose Charleston’ because it once had ‘highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country’
June 20, 2015 12:00PM ET
by Massoud Hayoun @mhayoun Google+
A website, LastRhodesian.com, features what appear to be pictures of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old suspect in this week’s deadly shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and an unsigned racist manifesto explaining why the writer “chose Charleston.”
In the pictures, Roof is shown posing with a gun, posing with the Confederate flag, posing with statues of what appear to be slaves at some sort of museum, stepping on the American flag, burning the American flag and wearing a jacket decorated with the flags of Apartheid-era South Africa and white minority-ruled Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
…
“I was not raised in a racist home or environment,” the manifesto states. But the writer says that the Trayvon Martin case awakened a sense of political awareness. “White people are being murdered daily in the streets,” it continues. The manifesto, written in plain text on one unadorned web page, continues with several paragraphs describing the writer’s opinions of various communities in the United States, including African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Jews and Hispanics.
The website features multiple images and references to films on white supremacy, including American History X, a 1998 blockbuster featuring Edward Norton as a reforming white supremacist.
It concludes with a section alluding to the writer’s motivations for actions, although without specifying what those actions are. “I see all this stuff going on, and I don’t see anyone doing anything about it. And it pisses me off,” the author wrote, quoting “American History X.”
“Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me,” the website states. “I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country.”
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/20/website-features-racist-manifesto-photos-of-charleston-shooting-suspect.html http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/20/website-features-racist-manifesto-photos-of-charleston-shooting-suspect.html
https://twitter.com/byjoelanderson/status/612387552583118848/photo/1
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/612345712278241281
https://twitter.com/Dudette9t9/status/612379798971678721
WTF?
Dylann Roof searched the historical significance of Emanuel AME
He went to kill black people
He wanted to start civil war
He assassinated a STATE SENATOR
How is that NOT political, FBI?
There is an enemy within and that’s why George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson AREN’T in prison.
Relatives blame the Internet for Dylann’s act of terrorism.
Jun 20 2015, 4:29 pm ET
Charleston Church Shooter Dylann Roof Was Loner Caught in ‘Internet Evil’: Family
by Erin Calabrese and Elisha Fieldstadt
Long before police say Dylann Roof massacred nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina, church this week, his relatives recall he was a “sweet kid” who grew into a “painfully shy” loner.
But along the way, they told NBC News, he became ensnared by something sinister online.
“He was locked in his room looking up bad stuff on his computer,” Roof’s ex-stepmother, Paige Mann, said Saturday from her home in Chapin, South Carolina. “Something on the computer drew him in — this is Internet evil.”
Mann described her former stepson as “very smart — too smart,” and said that he was “bored in advanced classes” in school.
…
Mann and Roof’s father, Ben, are divorced, but she said they were both concerned about him and urged him to get a job.
But the family didn’t see warning signs that he would commit such a brutal act, mostly because Roof was a “sweet kid,” Mann said. She said she released a childhood photo of Roof to NBC News because “I just want to show you that he had a good family.”
“I never imagined he’d have anything bad in his heart toward people,” Mann’s mother, Patricia Hastings, told NBC News.
“Ben comes from a very good family, very well-educated, from church-going, God-loving people who would never condone or teach this to their children. I don’t know when Dylann got lost,” Hastings said, adding that the family is getting death threats.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/relatives-charleston-church-shooter-dylann-roof-describe-quiet-sweet-kid-n379071?cid=sm_tw&hootPostID=1460089c2a12c9ea74b669bd039a4f5d
https://twitter.com/EMQuangel/status/612243620242944002/photo/1
https://twitter.com/petrakramer/status/612253763605282816/photo/1
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/612098873977344000
fire tom friedman @firetomfriedman
4 million professional reporters covering Charleston and Dylann Roof’s manifesto found by @HenryKrinkIe & @EMQuangel http://lastrhodesian.com/data/documents/rtf88.txt …
uh huh
uh huh
https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/612370586908667905/photo/1
I suspected this would happen.
Good!
https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/612355062485155840
just an observation from BJ
I found the same thing on my local newspaper posting about this race-based terrorist massacre—-crickets. Now, these are the same individuals who never miss an opportunity to talk ugly about young black males when they commit any crime. They blame PBO and every black person in the nation, then they go on to speak as if they’re in his family and disrespect his mom and other relatives, and they always say the guy has an absentee dad. They even even stoop so low as to make fun of the guy’s name. They aren’t saying a d*mn thing about Dylann Roof. Methinks some mystical fairy visited them Wednesday night and put superglue between their lips and between their fingers, making it impossible for them to type anything about him on social media boards. Strange folks, they are, and they’re cowards, too because none of them have the courage to break ranks and condemn Roof.
https://youtu.be/z0fDAKq9FDc
sigh…still think voting is ‘respectability politics?’
https://twitter.com/Dudette9t9/status/612248506774913024/photo/1
https://twitter.com/sofiyaballin/status/612330746234040320
https://twitter.com/LiberalEffects/status/612081755156148224/photo/1
comment from BJ:
https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/612074288531828736
https://twitter.com/PoliticalGroove/status/611748506588459008
https://twitter.com/thewayoftheid/status/612265517596831745
https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/612261529635934209
https://twitter.com/HenryLouisGates/status/611735644818272256
https://twitter.com/WendellPierce/status/611898937562128385
https://twitter.com/postandcourier/status/611950926040072192
https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/612271561630982144/photo/1
uh huh
uh huh
so much for it being part of a long cherished history
https://twitter.com/MARCMORIAL/status/612028778806644736
https://twitter.com/deray/status/612266270004785152
https://twitter.com/deray/status/611853727943671808/photo/1
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/612257318399537156/photo/1
https://twitter.com/callmedollar/status/611978647336042497
Now THIS is epic SIDE EYE
https://twitter.com/ReignOfApril/status/612086691348762624/photo/1
https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/612073705011826688
Ruler of New Wakanda @insanityreport 1h1 hour ago
he grew up in an abusive household. So what? He didnt kill his family. He killed black people. We ain’t have shit to do with his upbringing
Ruler of New Wakanda @insanityreport 36m36 minutes ago
That’s why they’re always asking us to remain calm in these situations knowing they wouldn’t do the same if it was them
Take Down the Confederate Flag—Now
The flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, endorses the violence he committed.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jun 18, 2015
http://www.theatlantic.com/
https://twitter.com/Gus_802/status/612100275944361984/photo/1
BURN THE BITCH
https://twitter.com/HenryKrinkIe/status/612245602768826368
https://twitter.com/EMQuangel/status/612241829761683456
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/612250971809443840/photo/1
Just got back home..
So…..it took TWITTER FOLKS to find the terrorist’s manifesto…
Isn’t that interesting….
Uh huh.
UH HUH.
I’ll ask these questions again…
HOW did he get the murder weapon?
WHAT was his employment?
HOW did he get a car?
HOW did he get the money to put gas in the tank?
WHAT does his family do?
Tamir Rice was a 12 year old BOY and they investigated HIS FATHER….
But, somehow, NOTHING on this TERRORIST’S FAMILY?
UH HUH
UH HUH
Oh he’s a victim now?
Lying liar–> Dylann Roof’s says he is getting threats from the Black Panther Party.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/dylann-roofs-father-gets-threatening-phone-calls-police/ar-AAbRUha?ocid=u146dhp
100% with LUVVIE ON THIS…
http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2015/06/charleston-forgiveness-and-black-pain.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Luvvie+%28Awesomely+Luvvie%29
Kurtis Cook, y’all!
So CNNis now claiming the website photo APPEAR to be Dylann Roof, when they actually are this murdering nut job.
Oh, but the family didn’t know. He was so quiet and soft spoken. They are also victims, never expecting anything like this. WHAT HORSESH!T. That judge has got to go.
So who took all of these pictures of Roof??
They are not “selfies.”
Exactly!
64,000 question! And thus ends the theory of ‘LONE WOLF’ They band together, and declare if one of them is caught, don’t reveal any names/groups.
In an hour, a church changes forever
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150619/PC16/150619306
It almost didn’t happen
As he wheels his dark 2000 Hyundai Elantra into the church’s parking lot, Dylann Storm Roof has no way of knowing that the building might well have been empty had members canceled the Bible study.
His only hint is the handful of cars scattered about the large lot as the sky glows from the setting evening sun.
At 8:16 p.m., Roof points his car into a space reserved for handicapped access and parks as close as he can to the church’s street-level meeting and office area. He wears a long-sleeved grey shirt and dark pants, even though temperatures soar into the 90s.
A half-minute later, he reaches for a handle to an elegant wooden side door, which leads to the Bible study room. It is left unlocked to welcome members and strangers alike.
He steps into the Bible study session and its dozen attendees, including much of the church’s clergy.
A 21-year-old white man, he is slight of frame and wears his hair in a bowl cut. He stands out. But to some gathered, he simply looks clean-cut and seems decent, almost shy.
Besides, in the AME Church, all people are welcomed with love, embraced by its members.
Saying little else, Roof asks who the minister is. When told that Pinckney, 41, is the church’s head pastor, Roof sits near him at a round table.
The group invites the guest to join their study of Mark 4: verses 16 to 20. “Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.”
The killing begins
About 9 p.m., the Bible study concludes. As the group prepares to share a concluding prayer, Roof suddenly stands, pulls out a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol and says he has come to kill black people.
He shoots the Rev. Pinckney first, at near point-blank range. Simmons tries to protect the pastor, a father of two young children, but Roof shoots him multiple times, too.
As Roof unloads his gun into the remaining people who had welcomed him, they fall from wounds or to avoid being shot, first Coleman-Singleton, a 45-year-old church pastor and track coach at Goose Creek High School, then Thompson and on and on.
Somehow, Felicia Sanders remains composed enough to pull her 5-year-old granddaughter down with her and whispers: play dead. The two lie on the cold floor covered in the spilled, warm blood of their friends and family.
Sanders feels the heat of each gun blast, hears the clank of casings echoing onto the hard tile and struggles to hold utterly still, even as Roof stops to reload.
Her son, 26-year-old Tywanza Sanders, tries to take advantage of the halt in gunfire to calm Roof and talk him out of more bloodshed.
But Roof replies that he’s there to do a job — and he must finish it. He shoots Sanders, then the rest, including Susie Jackson, a beloved aunt who Sanders couldn’t save with his final, most desperate words. At 87, she is the oldest worshipper there.
All of the dead and dying suffer multiple gunshot wounds.
As Roof starts out of the building, he passes Polly Sheppard, who is on her knees praying and has somehow avoided his rampage so far.
He asks her if she’s shot. She says no.
“I am going to let you live so you can tell the story of what happened,” Roof says, telling her he plans to kill himself.
With Felicia Sanders and her granddaughter still pretending to be dead, with Sheppard still alive, Roof returns to the church door, looks both ways as he opens it and climbs into his car and leaves.
It’s about 9:15, one hour after he arrived.
Two others also survive, unseen by Roof, locked in the Rev. Pinckney’s office: the pastor’s wife, Jennifer Pinckney, and one of their young daughters.
Shock and the aftermath
After police arrive, the survivors are sent to the Embassy Suites Hotel across Meeting Street, some sobbing, some far too stunned to react. Soon 200 to 300 family, friends and clergy gather.
Sheppard scrolls through the contacts on Ethel Lance’s cellphone — picked up after the shootings — until she sees one she recognizes. It is Willi Glee. At 74, he’s long served in the church on its history and archives committee.
“He killed everybody,” she says. “They’re all dead.”
My heart aches reading this
Shaun King
Can we be honest?
We have Two America’s.
One fictional and great in every way.
The other, the real America – violent & racist from DAY 1
10:48 AM – 19 Jun 2015
And that’s the part that needs to be EXPUNGED, Lindsey Graham
He’s such a pompous prick.
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/611997789778767872
Austin representing!
Mavis Staples sings acoustic rendition of ‘We Shall Overcome’
Joining my hands with yours.
Gladly.
No discernible reaction from Dylann Roof throughout the hearing, or while the family members spoke. I wonder if he ever saw this outcome in his grand fantasies.
And then there’s the judge, thinking he is making this profound statement about Charleston and how we must recognize that the young man’s family are also victims, never expecting this whirlwind or some such nonsense. And what appears to be his own racial bias from a previous case is already out there. They need to replace him.
Whenever these shootings occur, and it’s pretty damn often, I have yet to consider the killer’s family among the victims. How are they victims?
Absolutely need to replace him
We already knew that. This was no random shooting
DUH We knew this, and that evil MOFO HAD HELP
These are the victims that lost their lives in the Charleston Shooting.
No Judge in America has considered Muslims families as victims after their loved one has murdered. I see you AmeriKKKa!
Families of black victims are considered enablers and poor role models who contributed to the dysfunction of their child; And Muslim families are considered suspects, persons of interest and co-conspirators.
Lemme guess, that judge falls in the ‘RED NECK’ category. BE GONE DEVIL!
How is Dylann Roof family a victim? He’s 21 yrs old. Who the hell do you think taught him THAT HATE? They nurtured it.
SG2, these racist MOFOs will use every trick in the book imaginable to hold on to that narrow, fearful, mindset of white superiority.
DENIAL should be classified as a CRIME.
God help us. The Judge in DylanRoof bond hearing poured SALT IN THE WOUNDS bringing up the terrorist family as victims.
That was so inappropriate, cruel, and heartless for the judge to say that. He is tone deaf to what is going on here, or is that what he’s trying to do, rub salt in the wounds. This judge should be removed, his history is out there, he has no credibility right at the start. They need to get rid of him, appoint someone else.
BACKWARD ASS CRACKER. GTFOH