NO surprise here. Christians, those who follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, not the likes of the frc's tony perkins, should be horrified and denounce perkins' association with hate groups. tony perkins and dylann roof, not such strange bedfellows after all. But the confederate flag still flies in Charleston, S.C. Check out this from +The Inquisitr , +Al Jazeera English and the +Southern Poverty Law Center .....
Charleston Mass Murderer Researched The Same White Supremacists Group Once Addressed By FRC President Tony Perkins
Today we learn that another fan of the CCC is Charleston mass murderer Dylann Roof. The Inquisitr quotes from Roof's just-discovered manifesto:
"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. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?”The Inquisitr notes that the CCC's website has crashed today due to it now being linked to the Charleston massacre. The SPLC maintains a lengthy file on the CCC, here's an excerpt:
The danger of "race-mixing" has been a consistent theme for the group since the days of the White Citizens Councils. "God is the author of racism," said one story on the CCC's website in 2001. "God is the One who divided mankind into different types. ... Mixing the races is rebelliousness against God." After the NAACP declared its boycott of South Carolina in 1999 because the state continued to fly the Confederate battle flag over its Capitol dome, the CCC distributed a mock advertisement proclaiming, "South Carolina Now Has Whiter Beaches!" The Citizens Informer item urged whites to vacation in South Carolina and "enjoy a civil liberty that has been denied to them for many years at hotels, restaurants and beaches: the freedom to associate with just one's own people." Along with theological arguments, the Citizens Informer has published countless stories detailing "scientific" evidence for white people's inherent superiority.According to the SPLC, the CCC calls LGBT Americans "perverted sodomites." The SPLC also notes that the membership rolls of the Council Of Conservative Citizens "overlap greatly" with those of the League Of The South, the racist group which recently distributed signs at an Alabama anti-gay marriage rally addressed by Roy Moore, whose return to the Alabama Supreme Court was bankrolled by the League's former president.
Tony Perkins and other hate group leaders regularly scream with outrage when the LGBT movement is compared to the black civil rights movement. Yet time after time after time after time we find that both movements share common enemies. The next time Perkins appears on cable news, we need to pressure every outlet to mention what HE has in common with Dylann Roof.
FBI reviews purported Dylann Roof racist manifesto
Authorities investigating fatal shootings at black church looking into hate-filled manifesto that appeared on a website.
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Authorities
investigating the fatal shootings at a black church in the United
States are looking into a racist manifesto, apparently written by the
21-year-old suspect.
The FBI said on Saturday that it was reviewing the manifesto purportedly written by Dylann Roof, who is currently in police custody, Associated Press reported.
A federal law enforcement official close to the investigation said the FBI is aware of the website and is reviewing it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly on the case.
The website also hosts a series of photographs that appear to show the suspect, a white man from Lexington in South Carolina.
Demonstration are being held against the flying of the Confederate flag in South Carolina's capital, Columbia.
The flag was used by those who fought to secede from the US in its Civil War over slavery and is seen by many as a symbol of racism and segregation.
Activists are calling for the removal of the controversial flag from the grounds of the state house because of what some people see as its racist associations.
US President Barack Obama has said that he believes the flag belongs in a museum.
The authenticity of the website, which surfaced on Saturday, or who created it, could not be immediately confirmed. But Al Jazeera Gabriel Elizondo, who is reporting from the city of Charleston, has confirmed that it was registered by Roof.
Al Jazeera has also spoken to Roof's father, but he would not confirm that his son created the site.
In the website, the author provides a cryptic "explanation," for action, saying, "I have no choice ... I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country.
US gun culture: What will it take to change?
It also shows a photo of the suspect carrying a gun and the Confederate flag.
The website surfaced as mourners arrived in the city of Charleston from around the US on Saturday, to pay their respects to the nine African American victims.
Saturday memorial
Church leaders have confirmed that it will reopen on Sunday for the first service since the shooting.
At the memorial site in front of the Emanuel African Methodist Church, the oldest African-American congregation in the southern US, flowers were laid two metres deep in places.
Crowds gathered at the historic church on Saturday, while placards and signs offered words of solace and prayer but also frustration at another act of gun violence.
A black T-shirt hung on the church gate had white lettering that read: "Do you believe us now? Change must come."
Monte Talmadge, a 63-year-old US Navy veteran, drove nearly 480 km overnight from Raleigh, North Carolina, and sat in a camping chair across the street from the church.
The bloodshed in Charleston is the latest in a series of fatal mass shootings in the US.
The violence has renewed a national debate on tighter controls on gun possession, as well as racial discrimination against African Americans in the country.
Roof was arrested on Thursday and charged with nine counts of murder and a weapons charge for the fatal shooting at the church.
The FBI said on Saturday that it was reviewing the manifesto purportedly written by Dylann Roof, who is currently in police custody, Associated Press reported.
A federal law enforcement official close to the investigation said the FBI is aware of the website and is reviewing it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly on the case.
The website also hosts a series of photographs that appear to show the suspect, a white man from Lexington in South Carolina.
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| Confederate flag: a symbol of racially segregated past |
The flag was used by those who fought to secede from the US in its Civil War over slavery and is seen by many as a symbol of racism and segregation.
Activists are calling for the removal of the controversial flag from the grounds of the state house because of what some people see as its racist associations.
US President Barack Obama has said that he believes the flag belongs in a museum.
The authenticity of the website, which surfaced on Saturday, or who created it, could not be immediately confirmed. But Al Jazeera Gabriel Elizondo, who is reporting from the city of Charleston, has confirmed that it was registered by Roof.
Al Jazeera has also spoken to Roof's father, but he would not confirm that his son created the site.
In the website, the author provides a cryptic "explanation," for action, saying, "I have no choice ... I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country.
US gun culture: What will it take to change?
It also shows a photo of the suspect carrying a gun and the Confederate flag.
The website surfaced as mourners arrived in the city of Charleston from around the US on Saturday, to pay their respects to the nine African American victims.
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| Activists are calling for the removal of the controversial flag from the grounds of the state house [EPA] |
Church leaders have confirmed that it will reopen on Sunday for the first service since the shooting.
At the memorial site in front of the Emanuel African Methodist Church, the oldest African-American congregation in the southern US, flowers were laid two metres deep in places.
Crowds gathered at the historic church on Saturday, while placards and signs offered words of solace and prayer but also frustration at another act of gun violence.
A black T-shirt hung on the church gate had white lettering that read: "Do you believe us now? Change must come."
Monte Talmadge, a 63-year-old US Navy veteran, drove nearly 480 km overnight from Raleigh, North Carolina, and sat in a camping chair across the street from the church.
The bloodshed in Charleston is the latest in a series of fatal mass shootings in the US.
The violence has renewed a national debate on tighter controls on gun possession, as well as racial discrimination against African Americans in the country.
Roof was arrested on Thursday and charged with nine counts of murder and a weapons charge for the fatal shooting at the church.
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| People gather at a rally calling for the Confederate flag to be taken down, at the South Carolina State House Building in Columbia, South Carolina [EPA] |
Source: AFP
Charleston Shooter’s Alleged Manifesto Reveals Hate Group Helped to Radicalize Him Online
A photo of Dylann Roof taken from what appears to be his personal website.
A manifesto, purportedly penned by Dylann Storm Roof, the man charged with murdering nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., has surfaced online. A website contains numerous photos of Roof as well as a 2,000 word manifesto. The website is called “The Last Rhodesian” – the Rhodesian flag was one of the patches Roof had on his jacket in his Facebook profile photo.
Roof’s manifesto reveals much of his motivations for committing his heinous act. In it, he specifically cites the website of the white nationalist hate group Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) as his gateway into the radical right. The CCC is the modern reincarnation of the old White Citizens Councils, which were formed in the 1950s and 1960s to battle school desegregation in the South. Today, the CCC dedicates itself to educating whites on what it sees as an epidemic of black on white crime in the United States. The CCC website has been a touchstone for the radical right to get “educated” on this issue – and it appears this was the first stop for Roof on his dive down the white nationalist rabbit hole.
Roof’s alleged manifesto reads, “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. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?”
The CCC is very active in Roof’s home state of South Carolina. In fact, the CCC webmaster, white nationalist Kyle Rogers, is based in the state. Rogers is the mastermind behind the CCC’s push to bring attention to black on white crime – writing article after article on the CCC website exposing what he calls black on white hate crimes. This brand of racist opportunism, exemplified by Rogers’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting, is a staple of Rogers and the CCC’s media plan. On Feb. 6, 2012, in the midst of the site’s coverage of the shooting, the CCC’s website topped 170,000 unique visits in a single day. Such successes have emboldened Rogers and the CCC’s web team, resulting in similar coverage following the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and the social unrest that followed. It seems the CCC media strategy was successful in recruiting Roof into the radical right.
When he isn’t writing about black on white crime, Rogers manages a flag store, Patriotic-Flags.com, which you can visit by clicking an ad on the CCC website. Rogers’ store sells the flag of the government of Rhodesia, the same flag sewn on the jacket worn by Roof in his Facebook profile. Before Root’s alleged manifest was discovered, Rogers was quick to attack the Southern Poverty Law Center for our reporting on the Roof shooting. Rogers claimed “there is no evidence whatsoever” of Roof being radicalized online. If authorities determine that Roof’s manifesto is authentic, Rogers words may well come back to haunt him.
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