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In remembrance...of a very sad day.


Hate & Evil Personified (click here)

Today is the fifth anniversary of the horrific massacre at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. I want to first take a moment to say the names of the nine people whose tragic and senseless deaths must not be forgotten:

Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor
Cynthia Graham Hurd
Susie J. Jackson
Ethel Lee Lance
Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney
Tywanza Kibwe Diop Sanders
Rev. Daniel Lee Simmons Sr.
Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
Myra Singleton Quarles Thompson

We remember them and mourn the senseless taking of their lives.

To end hate, we must dismantle white supremacy and oppression in all its forms.

At the SPLC, we are challenging hate through our work, supporting educators in teaching the truth about our history to a new generation, remaining vigilant in monitoring more than 900 hate groups in the country and pushing elected and military officials to remove more than 1,700 Confederate symbols across the country.

We owe it to the Emanuel Nine – and to millions of others who have lost their lives to white supremacy and racism – to continue onward undaunted.

Dylann Roof (click here)

A law enforcement official said witnesses told authorities the gunman stood up and said he was there "to shoot black people."

Although armed at the time of capture...he was done so alive.



Per Wikipedia:

Three days after the shooting, a website titled The Last Rhodesian was discovered and later confirmed by officials to be owned by Roof.

The website contained photos of Roof posing with symbols of white supremacy and neo-Nazism, along with a manifesto in which he outlined his views toward black people, among other peoples.

He also claimed in the manifesto to have developed his white supremacist views after reading about the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin and black-on-white crime.