* I read Dylan Roof’s ‘manifesto’. Other than a few spelling errors (which he admitted to not having the time to correct) it was a well written piece arguing the state of race relations in the United States today. Roof, it should be noted, was a 21 year old high school dropout yet his writing was at least the equal of Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis which I have also read.
I think Roof’s crime was horrible. Middle aged and elderly black church goers are not the Trayvon Martins that drove Roof’s racial animus. What’s remarkable is that a self taught lower middle class white high school drop out can make a cogent case for his actions that is hard to refute.
