Grab and Keel

Richard Cohen: SPLC statement on the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina

Alternet’s Comments: Dylann Roof Is America

Why? Evil simply exists and takes advantage of the the openings our society provides. We are out of excuses for the society that created and turned loose a 21 year old, whose brain isn’t fully developed until around 25, to be the instrument of evil.

Clearly Stormy has the articulation of a nit. The cry that “they raped our women” doesn’t fly when you have just murdered nine people, six of whom were women, and one woman who was 87 years old. He does appear to have a problem with authority figures.

The gunman left six women and three men dead or dying, including a library manager, a former county administrator, a speech therapist who also worked for the church, and two ministers.

South Carolina’s town of Columbia let a misfit drift away from 9th grade school and disappear into the confederate flag waving void of a state that doesn’t even track hate crimes. He spent years unchecked growing into what he has become. His hate training was as good as any.

There is something odd about that scowling Facebook pict.. Angry yes; he looks desperately unhappy. He wears that jacket with it’s racist badges like a assignment.  Those badges.. Nelson Mandela was elected President the year Roof was born. Was it a selfie? Or, who took it? He reportedly hates the outdoors; whats he doing in a bog?

Enough.

These people brought great light to this world, Maybe they will light Roof’s way into his next:

Cynthia Hurd, 54

Susie Jackson, 87

Ethel Lance, 70

DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49

Tywanza Sanders, 26

Daniel Simmons Sr., 74

Sharonda Singleton, 45

Myra Thompson, 59

Clementa Pinckney, 41.