The unemployed high school drop out thug punk of a racist scumbag

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75. An excellent commentary article on

The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/19/charleston-lesson-black-americans-live-with-terrorism-all-the-time.html

CHARLESTON LESSON: BLACK AMERICANS LIVE WITH TERRORISM ALL THE TIME
BY BARRETT HOLMES PITNER 06.19.1511:15 AM ET

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"He was big into segregation and other stuff. He said he wanted to start a civil war,” said Roof’s roommate Dalton Tyler. “[He’d been] planning something like that for six months.”

John Mullins, a former classmate of Roof, told the Daily Beast that Roof “had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs. He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that.” Essentially, according to Mullins and Tyler, condoned racism is a natural extension of white Southern pride.

The views of Roof still align with those of a rebel faction that was intent on fracturing America and oppressing black Americans. When he drove by the capital building and saw the Confederate flag, he received encouragement for his bigotry. When he made racist jokes, or discussed starting a civil war, no one severely reprimanded him or told him that those views are not tolerated <emphasis added>. He was given a handgun for his 21st birthday, and no one around him could imagine that he could use his bigotry and newly acquired ability to kill to inflict terror upon those he hates.

The African American community knew that this was a recipe for disaster, and they also know that the more they discuss injustices and the more they fight for equality, the greater likelihood that terror will befall them. My family was saddened and distraught by the shooting at Emanuel AME, but they were not shocked. We, and countless other black Americans, have lived through generations of terror <emphasis added>.

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Edited to add bold and to correct the mess I made in my attempt to copy-paste part of the article while on my 7" Nook tablet.