Longview drawn into South Carolina shooting

[TexasTowelie]

A national group with a history of white supremacist doctrine — and a Longview president — may have provided inspiration for the suspect in last week's South Carolina church killings.

A manifesto attributed to Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused of fatally shooting nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, said he was "awakened" to black-on-white violence by information he found on the website of the Missouri-based Council of Concerned Citizens.

"There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders," the manifesto reads. "I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong."

At the front door of his Longview home, council President Earl P. Holt III on Monday adamantly refused to speak to the News-Journal. He said he was not afraid to speak freely, but he did not trust the newspaper to be accurate.

Read more: http://www.news-journal.com/news/2015/jun/22/longview-drawn-into-sc-shooting/ (Longview News-Journal)

[font color=330099]There is some other great information about Holt and the Council of Concerned Citizens in the article.[/font]

[Gothmog]

1. East Texas is almost a separate state compared to the rest of Texas

East Texas is more like the old south and racism is alive and well in east Texas