Dylann Roof’s Racist
Manifesto Uncovered. Dylann Roof, the
racist that gunned down 9 people at a Charleston church, once wrote in a
manifesto about how his white supremacist thoughts were affected by the Trayvon
Martin case.
A website registered
to the mass murderer has been uncovered that shows him waving the confederate
flag and writing about how George Zimmerman prompted him to look into black on
white crime. “I have never been the same since that day,” allegedly wrote Roof.
The New York Times
reports:
A website discovered
Saturday appears to offer the first serious look at Mr. Roof’s thinking,
including how the case of Trayvon Martin, the black Florida teenager shot to
death in 2012 by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, triggered
his racist rage.
The site shows a
stash of 60 photographs, many of them of Mr. Roof at Confederate heritage sites
or slavery museums, and includes a nearly 2,500-word manifesto in which the
author criticized blacks as being inferior while lamenting the cowardice of
white flight.
“I have no choice,”
it reads. “I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. 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. We have no skinheads,
no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone
has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to
be me.”
The website, the lastrhodesian.com,
which was not working by Saturday afternoon, featured a photo of a bloodied
dead white man on the floor. The picture appears to be an image from “Romper
Stomper,” an Australian movie about neo-Nazis. The domain name is a reference
to the white minority of what is now Zimbabwe, where whites fought blacks for
15 years and enlisted white supremacists as mercenaries.
According to web
server logs, the manifesto was last modified at 4:44 p.m. Eastern time on
Wednesday, the day of the Charleston shootings, and the essay notes, “at the
time of writing I am in a great hurry.”
In the manifesto, Mr.
Roof writes: “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.”
