Dylann Roof is 22 years old, but, I believe he was 21 when he committed the hate crime. What does this say about us as Americans? There are extremists all over this country that embrace violence. Besides trials such as this there isn't any focus on the end of such violence, it lives below the radar.
Roof got away besides. He carried out the murders and left to return to his life. He was not effected what so ever. It was a woman of conscience that noticed him and called the police. We do have a conscience about such issues, but, we do nothing to end this senseless violence.
Keeping people alive begins with efforts to end the hate. As a country we are facing this very task. There are escalating incidence of violence in the country and they are targeting people of ethnic and religious difference. It has never been more important to end the hate to end the violence.
The people in that church were among the most precious in this country. They believed in God and they believed in prayer. I am sure there are many words of wisdom from them. I think to honor them for the lives they lived, there should be a vigilance carried out regularly, perhaps monthly or weekly, as a national movement. We need to make a statement about their lives and it needs to be a continued vigilance to end the hate in this country.
Dylann Roof will be sentenced to the justice these dear people deserve, but, the hate lives even after his sentence. He will no doubt provide a defense of himself in that courtroom when he is sentenced and we all will be appalled at his words. That defense will no doubt be laced with hate and self-righteousness to inspire anyone that hears them. His defense needs to be censored by the judge. There should be no media coverage to his words. Let that be the beginning to end the hate.
June 19, 2016
Roof got away besides. He carried out the murders and left to return to his life. He was not effected what so ever. It was a woman of conscience that noticed him and called the police. We do have a conscience about such issues, but, we do nothing to end this senseless violence.
Keeping people alive begins with efforts to end the hate. As a country we are facing this very task. There are escalating incidence of violence in the country and they are targeting people of ethnic and religious difference. It has never been more important to end the hate to end the violence.
The people in that church were among the most precious in this country. They believed in God and they believed in prayer. I am sure there are many words of wisdom from them. I think to honor them for the lives they lived, there should be a vigilance carried out regularly, perhaps monthly or weekly, as a national movement. We need to make a statement about their lives and it needs to be a continued vigilance to end the hate in this country.
Dylann Roof will be sentenced to the justice these dear people deserve, but, the hate lives even after his sentence. He will no doubt provide a defense of himself in that courtroom when he is sentenced and we all will be appalled at his words. That defense will no doubt be laced with hate and self-righteousness to inspire anyone that hears them. His defense needs to be censored by the judge. There should be no media coverage to his words. Let that be the beginning to end the hate.
June 19, 2016
By Seth Ferranti
...Roof never did time (click here) in prison despite having been previously arrested, and nothing so far has tied him to any white supremacist groups. But the quote being attributed to him in the final moments before the shooting—"You are raping our women and taking over the country"—is loud and clear. While it's appalling to think the type of hate it takes to murder nine people in cold blood exists today, it does. And that kind of resentment is probably strongest in America's prisons, where white supremacist inmates are celebrating the crime.
"Dylann will be my next tattoo," a skinhead doing time in the feds for a gun charge told VICE after watching the news of the church shootings....
...White supremacists generally want to isolate themselves from other races. (click here) They want their own schools. They want white women to marry white men and produce white babies.
Big's prison time is almost up, but he'll take his views into the outside with him....
When asked, Big tried to explain why he ended up like this.
"The way I grew up in a small town where the race was only white, I heard my grandparents talking about niggers and spics and wetbacks and how they were different from the white race," he said. "When I grew older, I saw opposite races with my own race, and it didn't look right to me."
By talking about ideals like loyalty, dedication, solidarity, and kinship, white supremacist gangs can easily sell themselves to prospective members, even if they also require a lot from them. "I can't associate with homos, chomps [child molesters], or snitches. You can only affiliate with opposite races if you're gaining something from them. You can't eat with the opposite race or fraternize with them or cell with them. You have to keep it right, so keep it white," Big said. "We are running the prison for whites. We are brothers, comrades-in-arms. We go to war together. We represent the white race. We are the soldiers at the front of the war."
