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kpete

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Sat Jun 20, 2015, 04:02 PM Jun 2015

A Conservative Website Literally Turned Dylann Roof Into The Murdering Racist He Is Today [View all]




In his own words, Roof wrote in his manifesto that he hadn’t grown up in a racist household, nor were his friends particularly racist. The white kids and black kids at his school would make racial jokes at each other, and jokes were jokes.

Then the killing of Trayvon Martin dominated the news cycle, and caught Roof’s attention:

“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. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong.”


Dr. Sam Francis founded the CCC in 1985, and called it “The country’s most effective conservative activist group.” He was also a syndicated writer for the Washington Times.

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The Council of Conservative Citizens, supports, among other things:

That the United States is a Christian country.
That the people of the United States are part of the European people, no one else.
“Cultural, national and racial integrity” – A.K.A. xenophobia.
“States’ Rights, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the Bill of Rights.”
That the traditional family is the only worthy family – no same sex marriage, interracial marriage, or any homosexual tendencies in society to be accepted under law.
Women and gays should not serve in the military
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After “researching” deeper, Roof says he became racially aware:

“As an American we are taught to accept living in the melting pot, and black and other minorities have just as much right to be here as we do, since we are all immigrants. But Europe is the homeland of White people, and in many ways the situation is even worse there. From here I found out about the Jewish problem and other issues facing our race, and I can say today that I am completely racially aware.”



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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/20/a-conservative-website-literally-turned-dylann-roof-into-the-murdering-racist-he-is-today/
http://www.inquisitr.com/2188668/black-on-white-crime-council-of-conservative-citizens-things-dylann-roof-googled-that-convinced-him-to-kill-read-the-cocc-headlines/


Notable, typing “Council of Conservative Citizens” into Google right now turns up a CofCC website, which is so busy that only the Google cache of the website is alive. The Council of Conservative Citizens calls itself a conservative activist group. Most of the pages on the Council of Conservative Citizens website are returning a 404 error as of this writing.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2188668/black-on-white-crime-council-of-conservative-citizens-things-dylann-roof-googled-that-convinced-him-to-kill-read-the-cocc-headlines/#mkxsefgZL7wPsJ0l.99
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K&R for visibility Electric Monk Jun 2015 #1
Republicans claim CCC as their own Adenoid_Hynkel Jun 2015 #2
IOW, they are the Klan in suits instead of sheets. nt hifiguy Jun 2015 #20
That photo is not a selfie Ichingcarpenter Jun 2015 #3
Good Point: Who Took all those Photos of him... KoKo Jun 2015 #11
He probably downloaded a timer app. You can take timed pics with a cellphone. MADem Jun 2015 #12
I'm going to wait for a real psychiatric professional to closeupready Jun 2015 #4
Agree...there's more to this puzzle. But definitely doesn't excuse what he did in any way in this KoKo Jun 2015 #14
Not exactly. The racism was already there. He went searching for views that confirmed (to him) what Solly Mack Jun 2015 #5
+1 leftstreet Jun 2015 #15
Much information about this group at SPLC and here are some links Bluenorthwest Jun 2015 #6
from your first link passiveporcupine Jun 2015 #16
Thank you. lovemydog Jun 2015 #18
archived article put out by CCC on the murders: pugetres Jun 2015 #7
I've known about the CCC for YEARS. Malloy used to go off on it.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #8
If I were the CEO of Golds Gym... yuiyoshida Jun 2015 #9
I was thinking that too.... RichGirl Jun 2015 #21
That's the first thing I thought seeing that picture. williesgirl Jun 2015 #22
I remember when the CCC was formed SCantiGOP Jun 2015 #10
Looks like CCC's website is down. EL34x4 Jun 2015 #13
Roof is a high school drop out vlyons Jun 2015 #17
Paging Anonymous hifiguy Jun 2015 #19
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