The tragedy that unfolded in Charleston, South Carolina is more than a wake-up call for the United States. As more information about the shooter Dylann Roof surfaces, it becomes more than evident that the massacre that occurred at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was not an “accident” and was racially motivated. Not long after Roof was charged with 9 counts of murder, his alleged manifesto surfaced online, which confirms his hatred for not only people of color, but Latinos and people of the Jewish faith as well. Read the racially-charged manifesto after the jump!
Dylann Roof, 21, allegedly wrote a lengthy manifesto before going on his rampage in Charleston. A user on Reddit stumbled upon a document that contained Roof’s final thoughts before he killed nine parishioners last Wednesday (June 17). The manifesto included his reasoning of why he was against people of color, including Latinos and Jews. Apparently, it was the Trayvon Martin case that really set him off.
“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?”
Along with the disturbing manifesto, more chilling photos of Roof have surfaced. Within the digital photo album, there are images of Roof burning the American flag, him posing with the Confederate flag, and images of the alleged handgun with bullets he bought for his 21st birthday. He is also pictured posing in front of sacred African-American burial grounds in South Carolina.
Read the manifesto in full here and check out the eerie photos in the gallery.
