Ok, can someone please name me a single prominent conservative politician or commentator who has NOT said that Roof is a racist? I've heard Rush, Mark Levin, Chris Plant, etc., etc., point out that Roof was obviously a racist. So who in the devil are we talking about here? Who are the Republicans who have supposedly declined to merely say that Roof was a racist?
I think the point is that racism was clearly not the most serious problem that Roof had. There are a sizable number of racists in our society. How many of them walk into a church and start shooting up people? A fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of them.
Perhaps the left will see that their gross demagoguery on race can have some terrible consequences. Stop lying about the Trayvon Martin and Ferguson shootings, for starters.
Theres been several threads showing several cons perplexed as to what his motives were. SEVERAL.
Sigh.... Yes, I've seen those threads, and not one of them has proven the point you're claiming and all of them avoid the point being made by those "perplexed" conservatives.
No one is denying that Roof was a racist. No one. The point, which you guys keep avoiding, is that racism was clearly not Roof's most serious problem. Again, for the tenth time, there are lots of racists among us, but .000001 percent of them ever commit violence against someone with a different skin color.
Was it a racist attack? Well, gosh, obviously it was a racist attack. But, clearly, there was a lot more going on with Roof than just his racism, since, again, .000001 percent of racists ever commit an act of violence. So it's obvious that there was more than racism behind his decision to commit this heinous act.
I might add that many of the statements you guys are quoting from "perplexed" conservatives were made very soon after the shooting and before we knew the full story about Roof. Candidates on the campaign trail don't have time to sit around and watch the news for hours a day. As the full story about Roof has become common knowledge, I don't know of anyone who denies that he's a racist or that his action was racially motivated.