The Council Of Conservative Citizens And The Politicians Who Pander to Them

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S.C. Killer Dylann Roof’s Segregation Inspiration:

The Council Of Conservative Citizens And The Politicians Who Pander To Them

by Olivia Nuzzi and John Avlon
The Daily Beast, June 21, 2015

When Dylann Roof discovered the Council Of Conservative Citizens and was radicalized, he was tapping into a deep history of Southern racism.

In his own words, Dylann Roof’s path from a child “not raised in a racist home or environment” to the 21-year-old white supremacist who shot and killed nine men and women in a historic black church in Charleston last Wednesday evening began with the discovery of a website.

After the murder of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in 2012, Roof claimed he was “awakened.” In the manifesto he published to his personal website, LastRhodesian.com, Roof wrote that Martin’s murder prompted him to search for “black on White crime (sic),” on Google, which led him to the Council of Conservative Citizens.

“I have never been the same since that day,” Roof wrote.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/21/s-c-killer-dylan-roof-s-segregation-inspiration-the-council-for-conservative-citizens-and-the-politicians-who-pander-to-them.html

I never would have heard of CCC, were it not for DUers talking about Trent Lott a ways back. SourceWatch provides detail on CCC: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens

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1. Thanks for this very illuminating information on the CCC. What a group with major GOP associates.

I appreciate your well researched and informative OPs and posts always.