Doing some search to available information from SPLC and news sources, there seems to be a profound link to white supremacists located in St. Louis, Missouri. The city and metropolitan area has a troubled past in segregation by political and economic power of the white elites. I spend some years in Creve Coeur and just a few days ago our family recovered 8mm films shot in 1958. My sister recalled a grammar school trip to a park in rural St. Louis County. On the day of the school outing, three Afro-American children didn’t show up. At the entrance to the park in private ownership, there was a welcoming sign: “For Whites Only.” Unbelievable!
Charleston suspect’s life a troubled road to radicalization | AP |
In March, a police officer searched his car when he [Dylann Storm Roof] was found loitering at a park and found six empty 40-round magazines for an AR-15 assault rifle in his trunk, according to a police report. Roof told the officer he was saving up to buy an AR-15, the report said.
In April, he was arrested again on a charge of trespassing at the mall, where he’d been banned.
He had become a recluse. He never responded to an invitation to [his sister] Amber’s wedding — which had been planned for last weekend but was postponed after the massacre. He also appears to have begun a journey into the world of Internet hate sites, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks those sites.
A man adrift, Roof was the perfect candidate for the websites, said Keegan Hanks, of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“If you don’t have much of a social life in the real world, this is a way for you to interact with other individuals and be affirmed and encouraged,” Hanks said.
Roof appeared to be “AryanBlood1488,” who began posting on the white supremacist site the Daily Stormer in August, Hanks said. In comments over several months, “AryanBlood1488” described how he typed “black on white crime” into a Google search, ending up at the Council of Conservative Citizens [St. Louis, Mo.] site and then descended into radicalism from there.
St. Louis enters the action here. The Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) is incorporated – as a tax-free non-profit entity – in Missouri. Its roots lie in St. Louis white supremacists Gordon Baum, who is deceased, and Earl P. Holt IIII, who has moved to Texas. Baum and Holt were radicalized to fight desegregation in the St. Louis region, so the racist radicalization that led to the massacre at Mother Emanuel passed through arch segregationists right here in St. Louis, if the post was written by Roof.
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Dylann Roof had two dozen comments at Daily Stormer, none later than Feb. 2015 (SPL Center)Kyle Rogers [cached], a member of the Council of Conservative Citizens who lives in Summerville, South Carolina, denied Roof had any direct dealings with the group. A federal law enforcement source close to the investigation said the FBI is investigating Roof’s possible links to the Daily Stormer. The source spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.
Roof also posted a photo on Facebook of himself wearing a jacket with the flags of the defunct white-supremacist regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia.
- ○ ‘Show Me’ Missouri racism by Denise Oliver Velez @dKos on Aug. 17, 2014
Political cartoon about the East St. Louis massacres of 1917. Portrayed on the document he holds, the caption reads, “Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?”, referring to Wilson’s phrase in his speech before Congress upon the U.S. entering World War I “the world must be made safe for democracy.”
