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Killer's crusade for white America defies logic
Killer's crusade for white America defies logicJohn Romano, Tampa Bay Times, 6/20/15
What cannot be ignored, however, is the strained logic that allegedly persuaded 21-year-old Dylann Roof to open fire on a roomful of black people reading the Bible.
In a city that helped birth the Civil War, in a state that still proudly flies the Confederate flag, in a nation where blacks are twice as likely to live in poverty, Roof's words suggest that whites are somehow oppressed.
"Look at this young man's background,'' said Rodney Williams, a black City Council member in Charleston. "He was a high school dropout; he was unemployed; his family wasn't wealthy. He had more in common with us than with rich people.
"He should have had more connectivity, more unity with blacks in trying to change the system, trying to make life better for us all. How did we become the enemy?'
In a city that helped birth the Civil War, in a state that still proudly flies the Confederate flag, in a nation where blacks are twice as likely to live in poverty, Roof's words suggest that whites are somehow oppressed.
"Look at this young man's background,'' said Rodney Williams, a black City Council member in Charleston. "He was a high school dropout; he was unemployed; his family wasn't wealthy. He had more in common with us than with rich people.
"He should have had more connectivity, more unity with blacks in trying to change the system, trying to make life better for us all. How did we become the enemy?'
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Killer's crusade for white America defies logic (Original Post)
teach1st
Jun 2015
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Lithos
(26,404 posts)1. Whose logic?
There are a group of people who have championed a disconnected reality based on conspiracy and stereotypes..
Look to the Texas Governor and Jade Helm...
KT2000
(20,609 posts)2. the logic is
that there are African-Americans who are doing better than he is therefore they are taking success away from him. Martin Luther King addressed this.
romanic
(2,841 posts)3. Ain't this the truth.
"Look at this young man's background,'' said Rodney Williams, a black City Council member in Charleston. "He was a high school dropout; he was unemployed; his family wasn't wealthy. He had more in common with us than with rich people.
"He should have had more connectivity, more unity with blacks in trying to change the system, trying to make life better for us all. How did we become the enemy?'
Sadly Roof's hatred was sorely focused on skin color. Such superficial rage defies logic or empathy.