Racist Website Appears To Belong To Charleston Church Shooter

Dylann Roof

A website that appears to belong to the accused Charleston church shooter, Dylann Roof, is being investigated by authorities and the media for it's disturbing contents.

A manifesto of over 2,000 words and almost 60 photos of Roof seem to reveal a racist motivation for the shooting.

Throughout, Roof refers to Black people as "negroes," and capitalizes the word "whites" but not the word "Blacks."

In addition, there are photos of Roof posing with the Confederate flag, and burning/spitting on the American flag.

Here's just some of Roof's statements at the website:

"Niggers are stupid and violent. At the same time they have the capacity to be very slick."

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“I have no choice,” he writes. “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.”

"Segregation was not a bad thing. It was a defensive measure. Segregation did not exist to hold back negroes. It existed to protect us from them. And I mean that in multiple ways. Not only did it protect us from having to interact with them, and from being physically harmed by them, but it protected us from being brought down to their level. Integration has done nothing but bring Whites down to level of brute animals."

"A horse and a donkey can breed and make a mule, but they are still two completely different animals. Just because we can breed with the other races doesnt make us the same."

Roof also maintains that blacks were not treated terribly during the slavery era and that "it is all based on historical lies, exaggerations and myths."

Read more at NBC News.

GOP Presidential Candidate Rick Perry Calls South Carolina Shooting "An Accident"

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry

“This is the M.O. of this administration, any time there is an accident like this — the president is clear, he doesn’t like for Americans to have guns and so he uses every opportunity, this being another one, to basically go parrot that message.” - GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry in response to President Barack Obama’s Thursday remarks.

Perry also shifted the discussion from guns to drugs, saying, "It seems to me, again without having all the details about this, that these individuals have been medicated and there may be a real issue in this country from the standpoint of these drugs and how they’re used.”

More at Right Wing Watch.

South Carolina Church Shooter Admits He Wanted "To Start A Race War"

According to CNN, Dylann Roof, the 21 year old gunman who shot and killed nine at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night, told investigators that he wanted to start a race war.

One survivor of the incident said that Roof responded to a man's pleas to stop shooting by saying, "No, you've raped our women, and you are taking over the country ... I have to do what I have to do."

His roommate told ABC News that Roof was "big into segregation." And the Berkeley County, South Carolina, government tweeted a picture of him wearing a jacket with flags from apartheid-era South Africa and nearby Rhodesia, a former British colony that was ruled by a white minority until it became independent in 1980.

By telling authorities his aim, Roof admitted he attacked unarmed civilians for political purposes in an act of terror.

John Mullins recalls "racist slurs in a sense" that Roof made while the two attended White Knoll High School in Lexington, South Carolina, though he also remembers him having black friends.

"He would say it just as a joke," Mullins told CNN. "I never took it seriously. But ... maybe they should have been."

Joey Meek told ABC that talk of reinstating segregation was nothing new for Roof, his roommate. He'd been plotting something for six months, though "he never did any of that," and authorities weren't tipped off.

"I think he wanted something big like Trayvon Martin," Meek said, referring to the black Florida teen whose shooting death at the hands of George Zimmerman -- who was acquitted of murder -- provoked huge protests. "He wanted to make something spark up the race war again."

More at CNN.