These Republicans Aren't Sure What Motivated A White Guy To Kill 9 Black Churchgoers

[JimH52]

He was there to kill black people. He said as much. What does it take to convince people that the killing was based on race? Of course the far right will deny it.

 

[thanatos144]

He was there to kill black people. He said as much. What does it take to convince people that the killing was based on race? Of course the far right will deny it.

Who is denying it dipshit?

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[Rocko]

He was there to kill black people. He said as much. What does it take to convince people that the killing was based on race? Of course the far right will deny it.

Who is denying it dipshit?

Not one person is denying it. That won't stop libs from lying so they can score a few points though.
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[Redfish]

He was there to kill black people. He said as much. What does it take to convince people that the killing was based on race? Of course the far right will deny it.

Yes, it was based on race. No one is disputing that. The issue is whether it was a worse crime because it was based on race than if the shooter and the victims were the same race.

If Roof was black would this even be discussed today?

 

[Wildman]

If Roof was black would this even be discussed today?

HELL NO !

 

[Kondor3]

A barbaric act like Wednesday's massacre of nine strangers by a white gunman at the historic black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, shocks the conscience and makes it uncomfortable to face the painful truth about what happened.

This may help explain why some Republicans steered clear of the issue of race on Thursday in remarks about the killings. The politicians, including some 2016 presidential candidates, offered condolences to the victims, but resisted ascribing racial motivations to the gunman, even as information about suspected killer Dylann Roof mounts.

A Facebook photo surfaced on Thursday showing Roof wearing a jacket adorned with two patches that have long been linked to white supremacy. Another photo showed him in front of a car with a "Confederate States of America" license plate. Former friends, acquaintancesand a roommate have described Roof's racist sentiments and desires tocommit racial violence. Most damningly, a survivor of the church massacre said Roof told his victims he had come "to shoot black people."

More about Roof's beliefs and motives is likely to emerge later. But that's no reason to dance around what's already obvious, especially if you're doing so because reality doesn't fit your political agenda.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a GOP presidential candidate, tied the shooting to a lack of faith among Americans during a speech Thursday at a Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington.

"What kind of person goes into church and shoots nine people? There’s a sickness in our country, there’s something terribly wrong, but it isn’t going to be fixed by your government. It’s people straying away, it’s people not understanding where salvation comes from."

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), another 2016 presidential candidate, told CNNthat he saw the killings as an isolated act by a deranged individual.

"I just think he was one of these whacked out kids. I don't think it's anything broader than that. It's about a young man who is obviously twisted."

Jeb Bush, who recently threw his hat in the 2016 ring, fielded a question from The Huffington Post's Laura Bassett at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference and wasn't willing to state with certainty what has now already been confirmed about the shooter's motive.

"It was a horrific act and I don't know what the background of it is, but it was an act of hatred. ... Looks like to me it was [racially motivated], but we'll find out all the information. It's clear it was an act of raw hatred, for sure. Nine people lost their lives, and they were African-American. You can judge what it is."

Rick Santorum, also running for the White House, said hatred spurred the killings, and went on to suggest the motive may have been hatred of religion.

“You just can’t think that things like this can happen in America. It’s obviously a crime of hate. Again, we don’t know the rationale, but what other rationale could there be? ... This is one of those situations where you just have to take a step back and say we -- you know, you talk about the importance of prayer in this time and we’re now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we’ve never seen before. It’s a time for deeper reflection beyond this horrible situation.”

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), who is expected to announce plans for the 2016 presidential race soon, seemed uninterested in commenting on the shooter's possible motive during an interview with Fox News.

"Let's be honest, there's evil in the world. What you're seeing today, what we saw last night, that was evil. ... Law enforcement will figure out what his so-called motivations were. We shouldn't try to pretend we're going to understand his mind."

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who is expected to run for president in 2016,addressed the situation in Charleston Thursday following a public event. He also chose not to speak about a motive for the crime.

"It's an awful tragedy anytime that somebody would walk in and participate in a prayer service for an hour and then get up and shoot the people you have been praying with? That's obviously a pretty depraved person. ... I understand that they believe they have the guy in custody and so let's let the criminal justice system work."

Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) told CNN that he didn't "have a clue" about Roof's potential connections to white supremacists or racist groups. Instead, he pointed to the supernatural.

"I don't know what was going through the kid's mind, but [it's] certainly the act of a deranged human being, and this level of malice I think is unfathomable in this community, in this nation. It is ... clearly the work of the devil."

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) released a statement late Wednesday, saying, "we'll never understand what motivates" people to commit such crimes. It was early, so perhaps she can be forgiven for not being willing to state the obvious. At a prayer vigil on Thursday, Haley focused on the community's efforts to heal, avoiding all mention of the shooter's motive.

These Republicans Aren t Sure What Motivated A White Guy To Kill 9 Black Churchgoers But It Wasn t Racism

Racism isn't a mental illness - it's an ignorant mindset. If the Charleston church massacre wasn't a racist hate crime - I don't know what is.

A despicable exploitation of the Charleston Massacre for political purposes, by the worst of the vermin on the Far Left, parroted in a Leftie Yellow Journalism rag.

Hard and critical analysis of the root causes and the particulars of the incident and the more systemic conditions within our country are entirely appropriate at such times.

Cold, calculating, callous exploitation of the situation, to advance a political agenda - such as Republican-bashing - at a time like this is contemptible.

That is not to say that The Right is not every bit as capable of doing something along these lines itself when the opportunities presents itself.

That, too, is very wrong.

But Liberals keep harping about Leading-by-Example.

This was one helluva piss-poor Example of Leadership.

There are times when I actually enjoy perusing some of the articles on HuffPo.

And then there are pieces of dripping shit like this.

A shameless exploitation of the shades of the Sacred Dead of the Charleston Massacre.

Phukking dumbshit Hyper-Liberals.

 

[bodecea]

There are lots of ardent racists, but they don't walk into a church and start shooting people. Obviously, racism was not this kid's most serious problem.

And, I just wonder: Would liberals be reacting as they are now if the shooter had been a gay rights zealot who walked into a conservative evangelical church and killed several evangelicals for their "crime" of opposing gay marriage and for teaching that homosexuality is a sin that can be overcome? Boy, I bet liberals would be reacting very, very differently if that had been the case.

This liberal gay would want him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and would not be frantically looking for either excuses or deflections.

 

[thanatos144]

There are lots of ardent racists, but they don't walk into a church and start shooting people. Obviously, racism was not this kid's most serious problem.

And, I just wonder: Would liberals be reacting as they are now if the shooter had been a gay rights zealot who walked into a conservative evangelical church and killed several evangelicals for their "crime" of opposing gay marriage and for teaching that homosexuality is a sin that can be overcome? Boy, I bet liberals would be reacting very, very differently if that had been the case.

This liberal gay would want him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and would not be frantically looking for either excuses or deflections.

Not every one is a bigot like you who use race and sexual acts as deciding factors in life

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[Skull Pilot]

He was there to kill black people. He said as much. What does it take to convince people that the killing was based on race? Of course the far right will deny it.

What does it matter?

The people are still dead aren't they?

We don't have to know the why behind murder we just have t execute the murderers

 

[Allenmichael]

It's a sad commentary that the only killings that are considered "racial" is when it's white-on-black. Over the past few months too many instances occurred where gangs of blacks killed a whites and not a peep about racial motivation, aka, hate crime, from any source. Even Obama whom seems quick to speak his opinion in killings such as in S. Carolina is silent when the ratio is reversed.


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