What do the flags on Dylann Roof's jacket symbolise?

[Sunlei]

An image found on Dylann Roof's Facebook page shows the Charleston shooting suspect posing for the camera in a black jacket with two flags stitched to it. The flags are both old - one belonged to apartheid-era South Africa and the other to the state of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

Rhodesia collapsed in 1979 when its government was overthrown by an armed uprising and South Africa rejected apartheid in 1994 - the year Roof was born. But during the time they flew the flags worn by Roof, both nations were segregated and ruled by white minorities.

White supremacist organisations have celebrated both nations, claiming them to be examples of the benefits of white rule. The flags can be a subtle way for a white supremacist to reveal support for their cause, Mark Pitcavage, a director at the US Anti-Defamation League, told the New York Daily News.

"If they openly display hate, they get shunned, so what a lot of white supremacists do is a controlled degree of display," he said........... (op comment, IMO similar to the confederate flag wavers)






http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33190735

[Hoyt]

1. Poor parenting, and lack of education as well.

[Sunlei]

2. someone "educated him" about those flags.

[octoberlib]

3. I'm wondering if one of the parents is a member of any of these groups. I read they

were divorced and were fighting over visitation rights.

Of the state’s six neo-Confederate groups, South Carolina is home to two branches of League of the South. They believe the South should secede and be run by whites, according to the SPLC’s website.

The white separatist group Council of Conservative Citizens, opposed to racial integration, also operates in South Carolina, NBC News reports. Kyle Rogers, leader of that group, was quoted by the Post Courier in 2012 as saying that American blacks “are the most privileged members of their race” that “benefit greatly from the generosity of American whites, as they always have.”

Last July, residents in the South Carolina city of Seneca awoke to find bags of candy containing notes asking them to join the KKK, according to the Associated Press.

Violence from “far right” extremists is one of the top threats singled out by law enforcement agencies polled by the New York Times last year. Pointing that out was so politically fraught that Daryl Johnson, an expert in right wing terrorist groups left the Department of Homeland Security in 2010 after it dissolved his team, Wired reports.

“There’ve been no hearings about the rising white supremacist threat, but there’s been a long list of attacks over the last few years,” he told Wired. “But they still hold hearings about Muslim extremism. It’s out of balance.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/south-carolina-is-home-to-at-least-19-known-hate-groups/