{"id":110577,"date":"2016-12-22T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110577"},"modified":"2016-12-22T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:22:30","slug":"dylan-roofs-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110577","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Roof&#8217;s Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/kkkrazy-glue-hate-hoaxers-as-the-boy-who-cried-dire-wolf\/\">Comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* I read Dylan Roof\u2019s \u2018<A HREF=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/here-is-what-appears-to-be-dylann-roofs-racist-manifest-1712767241\">manifesto<\/a>\u2019. 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\u2019s Princeton thesis which I have also read.<\/p>\n<p>I think Roof\u2019s crime was horrible. Middle aged and elderly black church goers are not the Trayvon Martins that drove Roof\u2019s racial animus. What\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments: * I read Dylan Roof\u2019s \u2018manifesto\u2019. 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