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kpete

(72,903 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:24 AM Jun 2015

Last edited Thu Jun 18, 2015, 12:07 PM - Edit history (1)

Both are flags of white minority rule over Africans.

A Facebook photo shows Roof wearing a jacket with two flag patches:
One of Apartheid-era South Africa, and the other of Rhodesia, before it became majority-ruled Zimbabwe.

http://rt.com/usa/268108-carolina-church-shooting-suspect/
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dylann-roof-white-supremacist-patches

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Proof In The Patches: For anyone wondering whether this was a hate crime [View all] kpete Jun 2015 OP

About the other patch, I see a scroll and book chalmers Jun 2015 #1

its the rhodesian flag. drray23 Jun 2015 #5

No I know the two flag patches chalmers Jun 2015 #6

Has anyone figured out the other emblem? jberryhill Jun 2015 #2

The last name would fit. n/t jen63 Jun 2015 #12

It looks to me like a book and diploma... Contrary1 Jun 2015 #13

yep kpete Jun 2015 #7

No doubt it was a hate crime. n/t Sissyk Jun 2015 #4

How the fuck did this backwater cretin learn about Rhodesia? BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #8

Gonna be interesting to find out about his parents and family. n/t dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #10

I have driven through backwoods S. Carolina BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #11

There are decent people in SC too. cwydro Jun 2015 #14

The adjective used was "backwater" meaning remote and rural BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #15

Ok. cwydro Jun 2015 #16

Because the white guy probably says BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #17

Maybe. cwydro Jun 2015 #18

His family has friends who describe him as soft-spoken KitSileya Jun 2015 #20

Double ick. Coventina Jun 2015 #9