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    Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley Orders Confederate Flag Taken Down From Capitol


    By Eric Ortiz
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    Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley ordered the four Confederate flags on the state Capitol grounds in Montgomery to be taken down Wednesday morning, NBC News has learned.

    Bentley's decision comes amid a growing backlash against the rebel banner, which critics say symbolizes a legacy of racism. The Confederate flag has been in the spotlight since the deadly shooting one week ago of nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a white gunman.

    RELATED: South Carolina State Rep. Todd Rutherford: Take Rebel Flag Down for 'Repairs'

    The shooter, Dylann Roof, was seen in photographs with Confederate flag paraphernalia and allegedly attacked his victims because of their race.

    Bentley told AL.com that his decision came, in part, as a response to the Charleston massacre as well as to avoid drawn-out political fights over the flag.

    "This is the right thing to do. We are facing some major issues in this state regarding the budget and other matters that we need to deal with," Bentley said. "This had the potential to become a major distraction as we go forward. I have taxes to raise, we have work to do. And it was my decision that the flag needed to come down."

    PHOTOS: Take it Down: Chorus to Remove Confederate Flag Grows Louder

    The Confederate flags removed were part of the Confederate Memorial Monument on the state grounds.

    South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said this week that she wants her state to take down its Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds in Columbia. Lawmakers took a first step on Tuesday toward removing it, although it could take weeks.

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    Red
    While the meaning of the color red in the Confederate flags remained the same, the size and usage of the color changed throughout its transformations. Red represented the valor of the Confederacy. As in the case of the original United States flag, it represented hardiness and the willingness to sacrifice. Red was used as a background of the most popular flag, the "Navy Jack." Other flags showed white as the background.

    White
    In the language of flags, white represents purity. Innocence of ideas is what is attempted to be represented by using white. Some Christians also attribute the usage of white in a flag as sign of the represented country's allegiance to God and his son.

    Blue
    The blue of the Confederate flag is a dark or navy blue. This blue was also known as "Bonnie Blue." It was first used in the Louisiana state flag and was thought to represent Southern pride. The blue of the flag later was also known to represent justice as well as the perseverance and determination of the people.

    Stars
    Beauregard added one star to the Confederate flag for each of the states in the Confederacy. The first seven stars represented belonged to South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. After the Battle of Fort Sumter, stars were added for Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee. There were eventually 11 stars.

    Cross
    What looks like an X on the "Confederate Jack" is actually the cross of Saint Andrew. Andrew was the first disciple of Jesus who later in life became a martyr. When the Roman government set about his crucifixion, Andrew protested. It is reported he asked to be crucified in the form of the X as he didn't feel worthy to die in the same manner of Jesus. The Confederate leadership apparently felt inspired by Andrew's fortitude and adopted his cross into their flag.

    None of it says hatred and just because some people use it as such does not make it so . Racial motivation can be expressed with any object or symbol.
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    General Lee, 'Dukes of Hazzard' car, to lose Confederate flag following controversy


    As several major retailers pull merchandise featuring the confederate flags from their shelves, an icon of the popular TV series "Dukes of Hazzard" will also stop sporting the battle flag.

    General Lee, the 1969 Dodge Charger driven by Bo and Luke Duke on the show, will no longer feature the confederate flag on its roof, according to Yahoo! News. Merchandise and toy replicas of the car have remained popular despite the series being off the air for decades.

    Warner Bros. Consumer Products, which licenses toys from "Dukes of Hazzard" released the following statement about the decision, reports AJC.com:

    "Warner Bros. Consumer Products has one licensee producing die-cast replicas and vehicle model kits featuring the General Lee with the confederate flag on its roof - as seen in the TV series. We have elected to cease the licensing of these product categories."

    Ben Jones, who portrayed Cooter Davenport on the show, took to Facebook to air out his disagreement with the decision in a long rant.

    "That flag on top of the General Lee made a statement that the values of the rural South were the values of courage and family and good times," said Jones.

    TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS AND FANS FROM BEN JONES AKA “COOTER”

    I THINK ALL OF HAZZARD NATION UNDERSTANDS THAT THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG IS THE SYMBOL THAT REPRESENTS THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE WHICH KEEPS US “MAKIN’ OUR WAY THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW HOW.”

    THAT FLAG ON TOP OF THE GENERAL LEE MADE A STATEMENT THAT THE VALUES OF THE RURAL SOUTH WERE THE VALUES OF COURAGE AND FAMILY AND GOOD TIMES.

    OUR BELOVED SYMBOL IS NOW BEING ATTACKED IN A WAVE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS THAT IS UNPRECEDENTED IN OUR NATION OF FREE SPEECH AND FREE EXPRESSION. ACTIVISTS AND POLITICIANS ARE VILLIFYING SOUTHERN CULTURE AND OUR HERITAGE AS BEING BIGOTED AND RACIST. WE KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT THE CASE. AND WE KNOW THAT IN HAZZARD COUNTY THERE WAS NEVER ANY RACISM.

    THOUGH THE FLAG HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM SUCH PLACES AS WALMART, TARGET AND AMAZON, IT WILL NEVER BE REMOVED FROM ANY OF OUR COOTER’S STORES AND MUSEUMS. WE ARE ALL THE SAME GOOD PEOPLE TODAY THAT WE WERE LAST WEEK AND LAST YEAR AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE SHAMED INTO TURNING OUR BACKS ON OUR HERITAGE AND OUR CONVICTIONS.

    WE ARE NOT RACISTS. WE DESPISE RACISM AND BIGOTRY. AND WE THINK THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CREATING THIS “CULTURAL CLEANSING” ARE THE REAL BIGOTS IN THIS STORY.

    WHEN WE SAY OUR FLAG STANDS FOR “HERITAGE, NOT HATE” AND “PRIDE, NOT PREJUDICE”, WE MEAN IT. AND WE BELIEVE THAT OLD SAYING, “YOU CAN’T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING IF YOU FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM.”

    COOTER’S IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO SELL OUR SOUTHERN SYMBOLS AS LONG AS THERE IS A COOTER’S. I WILL FIGHT THESE PEOPLE UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER, AND THEN I WILL FIGHT THEM ON THE ICE.

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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Charleston suspect up against South Carolina's record on death penalty

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charleston's chief prosecutor has yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty for the man accused of murdering nine African-Americans at a landmark church, but South Carolina is a state with a history of embracing capital punishment.

    South Carolina has an execution rate of 8.3 per every 10,000 people, the seventh highest in the country, according to Death Penalty Resource and Defense Center, a group that opposes capital punishment.

    Since 1979, 180 people have been sent to death row, the centre says, and a total of 43 prisoners have been put to death in the four decades since capital punishment was reinstated in the Palmetto State.

    "This is a state that has the death penalty and it imposes it," said Miller Shealy, a former South Carolina Assistant State Attorney General.

    Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, is accused of gunning down the nine victims during a Bible study class at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was a premeditated shooting, prosecutors say, and it shocked the nation in its apparent callousness and the racist motivations that may lie behind the attack.

    The intense publicity could galvanise public support for executing the suspect if he is convicted, just as it did in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted in the Boston Marathon bombing, some officials say.

    "This is our Boston bomber," said Shealy, who now works as a professor at Charleston School of Law.

    Prosecutor Scarlett Wilson will likely spend months building her case, considering evidence and psychological evaluations of the suspect, before announcing her intentions.

    After Roof's arrest, she said she would not comment on the progress or direction of her investigation. Ashley Pennington, a public defender representing Roof, did not return calls seeking comment.

    Despite the state's record, the Charleston case stands out in at least one respect that could work against a decision to seek the death penalty against Roof.

    In a gesture that reflected deep religious conviction, the families voiced tearful forgiveness for the suspect during his first court appearance on Friday.

    While none of them have said publicly whether they want the prosecutor to seek death, their merciful stances suggest that they may well oppose execution, experts in capital punishment say. Those wishes could prove difficult for Wilson to ignore.

    "All prosecutors say that they are very influenced by the family," said Eric M. Freedman, a professor of constitutional rights at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. "It's a factor, but it's not the biggest factor."

    There are many precedents when families of murder victims have persuaded prosecutors to seek life sentences, rather than the death penalty, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a Washington-based non-profit.

    "Ultimately, the choice is for the prosecutor to make," said Dunham, adding that Charleston may present a special case.

    “When you have victims whose lives where about peace and inclusiveness and whose families have called for forgiveness and mercy, seeking the death penalty against their will could amount to further victimization by the system.”

    Interviews on the streets of Charleston in the days after the shooting suggest residents are divided in their feelings over the issue.

    Bob Morrison, a white man who said his Catholic faith leads him to oppose the death penalty in general, said he feels differently in Roof's case.

    "When you do something as hideous as this, I don't think the taxpayer should be supporting him for his whole life in jail," Morrison said from the historic Charleston City market.

    But Michael Taylor, a 56-year-old postal worker who is black, said he did not want to see Roof executed. "It would just be more death," he said.

    Around the country a majority of U.S. adults still favours the death penalty but support has slipped to 55 percent in 2013 from 62 percent in 2011, a Pew Research Center survey found.

    Since 1912, South Carolina has executed 282 people, 74 of them white and 208 black, according to the state Department of Corrections. Prior to that, counties carried out executions by hanging.

    Now, South Carolina uses lethal injection as its primary method, but it is one of eight states that still turns to the electric chair if the drugs used in executions are unavailable, according to DPIC.

    In light of drug shortages affecting executions across the country, a bill is pending in the South Carolina Legislature to add firing squads to the state's roster of execution methods.

    Currently, there are 44 inmates on South Carolina's death row, housed at the Broad River Correctional Institution in the capital city of Columbia.

    The size of South Carolina's death row ranks 16th out of the 31 states with capital punishment, plus the U.S. military and the federal government, according the to DPIC. California leads with 746, and Wyoming and New Hampshire have one each.

    In terms of executions that are carried out, South Carolina and North Carolina are tied for ninth place, with 43 executions, DPIC data shows. Texas is the leader by far with 526, followed by Oklahoma with 112.

    South Carolina has also fallen in line with the national trend of turning to the death penalty less frequently in recent years. The last time the state executed an inmate was in 2011.

    http://www.thestar.com.my/News/World...death-penalty/

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    New charges for Charleston shooting suspect: 3 counts of attempted murder related to survivors

    COLUMBIA, S.C. – The man accused of killing nine people attending Bible study at a historic black church in Charleston has been indicted on three new charges of attempted murder, prosecutors said Tuesday.

    Dylann Storm Roof, 21, had been indicted on the state charges, stemming from people who survived the June 17 attack at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church, prosecutor Scarlett Wilson said in a news release.

    Roof was arrested last month and charged with nine counts of murder, one for each person killed. He also faces a weapons charge.

    Roof's defense attorney did not immediately return a message Tuesday seeking comment. Roof is next expected in court in October on the murder charges, and online court records did not show any additional dates for the new charges.

    A state judge already has been appointed. Federal authorities have not said whether they will pursue hate crime charges against Roof.

    The news of the new charges comes as South Carolina state lawmakers move closer toward possibly removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds. Roof, who is white, appeared in photos waving Confederate flags and burning or desecrating U.S. flags, and purportedly wrote of fomenting racial violence. Survivors told police he hurled racial insults during the attack.

    State senators gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would remove the flag from its pole in front of the Statehouse. That sends the proposal to the House, where it faces a less certain future.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/07...urder-related/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    FBI: Charleston shooter shouldn't have been allowed to buy gun

    By Cecelia Hanley
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    FBI Director James Comey said on Friday that Dylann Roof should not have been able to buy a gun. Roof shot and killed nine people on June 17 at a Charleston church.

    Roof was able to purchase a .45-caliber handgun because of a loophole in the national background check system. Roof admitted to having a drug charge.

    http://www.14news.com/story/29520684...wed-to-buy-gun
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Clerical error was beginning of missteps in South Carolina church shooting suspect's gun buy

    LEXINGTON, S.C. – Both the FBI and a county agency are promising to review a series of mistakes that allowed South Carolina church shooting suspect Dylann Roof to get a gun he never should have been allowed to buy.

    Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon told The Associated Press a clerk at his jail entered in the incorrect location for Roof's drug arrest in February. That meant an FBI examiner using records from a state database couldn't find the details about the arrest when Roof wanted to buy a gun.

    The background check found nothing after three days and Roof was eventually allowed to buy the .45-caliber handgun authorities say was used in the June 17 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston that killed nine people.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/14...oting-suspect/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Charleston judge sets trial date for Dylann Roof; extends gag order

    A Charleston judge Thursday set a tentative trial date for the man who authorities say fatally shot nine people inside an African-American church.

    During a 25-minute hearing, Circuit Judge J.C. Nicholson set a July 11, 2016, trial date.

    Family members of the nine victims were in the courtroom as Dylann Roof stood before a judge and was formally charged with nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and a weapons charge stemming from the June 17 church massacre, Fox Carolina reported.

    Public defender Ashley Pennington said he would not seek any bond for Roof, who sat quietly during the proceedings, clad in a gray-striped prison jumpsuit.

    Nicholson said he would have denied a request anyway, calling Roof a flight risk, noting he was arrested in Shelby, North Carolina, on July 18, the day after nine black parishioners were shot to death during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

    Roof, 21, has not entered a plea. He faces multiple charges, including nine counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder.

    Federal authorities have not said whether they will pursue hate crime charges against Roof, although Justice Department officials have said they broadly agree the shootings meet the legal requirements for a hate crime.

    Attorneys for The Associated Press and other media organizations asked for the release of police records from the investigation.

    Nicholson said that the records will not be released before July 22 in order to give prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims' family members time to object.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/16...nds-gag-order/
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Charleston shooting defendant to provide handwriting samples

    A white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church has been ordered to provide handwriting samples to investigators.

    Circuit Judge J.C. Nicholson on Friday directed 21-year-old Dylann Roof to provide the samples.

    Following Roof's arrest the day after the June 17 shootings, several search warrants were executed on Roof's "known residences and vehicles," said a court motion filed by prosecutor Scarlett Wilson.

    "Evidence was collected containing what the state believes to be the handwritten notes, lists, etc. of the defendant" and the state believes the notes "contain relative evidence of guilt and motive," the motion said.

    It added the samples are needed to confirm whether Roof wrote the notes. The order did not say specifically when the samples should be provided.

    Roof faces nine counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, stemming from the shootings during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Authorities have said the killings were a racially motived attack.

    During a hearing last week, the judge set a trial date for next July.

    Nicholson has issued a gag order preventing attorneys from discussing the case and temporarily blocking the release of police records and 911 calls, worried that such a release could affect Roof's ability to get a fair trial.

    The judge said during last week's hearing he is especially concerned if there are graphic photos of victims at the church or if screams might be heard on 911 recordings.

    While usually a request to block release of information or seek a gag order comes from the prosecution or the defense, Nicholson issued the order on his own.

    He is giving the defense, the prosecution and attorneys representing victims' families until Wednesday to file requests to be heard on the matter. If there are such requests, he will schedule a hearing.

    Attorneys representing The Associated Press and other media organizations are seeking the release of the documents.

    Meanwhile, Charleston City Council takes up a resolution on Tuesday to honor the victims for nine days beginning on the anniversary of the shootings next June. The resolution calls for planting nine live oak trees at different locations around the city in honor of the victims.

    http://www.independentmail.com/news/...riting-samples

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    Federal grand jury indicts Roof on hate crimes; feds exploring death penalty

    A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted Dylann Roof for hate crimes in the June killings of nine African-Americans at a Charleston church, according to an indictment just made public.

    The 33-count indictment charges Roof, 21, a white man from the Columbia area, with 12 counts of committing a federal hate crime (nine counts of murder and three attempted murders) against blacks, 12 counts of obstructing the exercise of religion and nine counts of the use of a firearm to commit murder.

    It says Roof gunned down nine African-Americans with a Glock .45 caliber and had eight magazines loaded with hollow-point bullets.

    The indictment cites racist statements and photographs of and by Roof published on an Internet site shortly before the June 17 killings of the African-Americans during a prayer meeting at “Mother” Emanuel AME Church.

    “In the months before June 17... Roof decided to attack African-Americans because of their race,” the 15-page indictment says. “He further decided to attack African-American worshipers in an African-American church in order to make his attack more notorious.”

    The indictment continues, “He selected Emanuel AME Church because it had a predominately African-American membershipo, and because it was significant to the people of Charleston, of South Carolina, and of the Nation.” It also says Roof’s motive was “to increase racial tensions across the Nation.”

    Hate crimes under federal law are crimes committed against someone because of their race, color, religion, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation or disability. South Carolina does not have a hate crimes law, but some 45 states do.

    Under federal law, prosecutors may seek the death penalty where violent death has resulted The U.S. Justice Department is exploring whether to seek the death penalty against Roof.

    A federal judge in Roof’s case had not been publicly determined by mid-afernoon Wednesday. But sources familiar with the case said a likely candidate is Judge Richard Gergel, a Columbia native who holds court in Charleston.

    Evidence concerning a racial motive by Roof in the case surfaced shortly after the June 17 killings by gun at Mother Emanuel AME Church. on June 17, a racist manifesto and photos of Roof with a gun and Confederate flags surfaced on the Internet on a website he allegedly created.

    In his alleged online manifesto, Roof said he was on his way to Charleston and hoped to ignite a race war.

    Roof could also be indicted for a terror-related crime, but the race aspect of Roof’s case made hate crime charges more likely, sources familiar with an ongoing state-federal investigation said.

    Under federal law, conviction of hate crimes involving murder can be punishable by life in prison or the death penalty.

    Since the June killings – far from triggering a race war that Roof allegedly sought – the shootings have led to the taking down of the Confederate flag at the S.C. State House and new conversations about race in the state and across the nation.

    President Obama came to South Carolina to speak at the funeral of Emanuel pastor and state Sen. Clementa Pinckney. The Emanuel church has become a shrine of sorts, visited by hundreds each week, and bedecked with flowers and American flags.

    Already, S.C. Solicitor Scarlett Wilson of Charleston County has won indictments for nine counts of murder against Roof.

    Wilson has said she is considering a state death penalty charges against Roof but has not made a decision.

    But state court documents recently filed in Charleston County in Roof’s case make clear that Wilson is looking at the alleged killer’s motive.

    In a July 17 order, issued in response to a Wilson motion, state circuit Judge J.C. Nicholson ruled Roof must produce handwriting samples in accordinance with State Law Enforcement Division procedures and in the presence of an expert in handwriting analysis.

    Nicholson’s order said that executed search warrants at Roof’s known residences and vehicle turned up “handwritten notes, lists, etc.” that the State “believes could contain relevant evidence of guilt and motive” in Roof’s case.

    “Accordingly, it is important that the State confirm the authorship of the collected hand-written material by expert comparison to known examplars of the defendant’s handwriting,” the motion said.

    Under state law, a solicitor like Wilson unilaterally decides whether to bring death penalty charges.

    Under the federal system, the Justice Department conducts a review process that can be lengthy.

    Although Roof has not yet been indicted on federal charges, Assistant U.S. Public Defenders Ann Walsh of Charleston and Bill F. Nettles IV of Florence have been assigned to represent Roof in case of any federal prosecution.

    The federal indictment issued Wednesday names each of the victims: Pinckney, Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, 87; the Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Ethel Lee Lance, 70; the Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, the Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., 74; and Myra Thompson.

    It also names two of the people who survived what has been called a massacre, and a surviving minor who is identified only by the initials K.M. The named survivors are Felicia Sanders and Polly Shepard.

    Assistant U. S. Attorneys Nathan Williams of Charleston and Julius Richardson of Columbia are expected to prosecute Roof.

    In his 2,000-plus word manifesto, Roof wrote, “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."

    Roof also told how he believed African-Americans are inferior to whites, how they were happy when they lived under slavery and how whites need to take the country back. Blacks are "the biggest problem of America," he writes.

    Roof also targets Jews and Hispanics, writing of Hispanics that even though many are white, "They are still our enemies." Of Jews, Roof writes they are responsible for "agitation of the black race."

    As for patriotism, Roof writes, "I hate the sight of the American flag."

    http://www.charlotteobserver.com/new...#storylink=cpy
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