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Friday, December 27th, 2019

Eleven years after Obama’s election, and three years into the Trump presidency, the threat of domestic terrorism can’t be ignored.

Author:     Introduction By Claudia Rankine, and Reporting by James D. Walsh
Source:     New York Magazine
Publication Date:     DEC. 19, 2019
 Link: Eleven years after Obama’s election, and three years into the Trump presidency, the threat of domestic terrorism can’t be ignored.
Stephan:   I think White nationalism is becoming a critical negative trend in the U.S. Our life expectancy is declining, live births are as well. But in spite of all those variables, the United States is going to become a majority-minority nation in 21 to 24 years. That is going to fundamentally change the culture and politics. For a percentage of Whites this is a threatening future. The deference Caucasians get over other races in countless social interactions is so universal as to be invisible. But when this group of Whites thinks about the future they see this loss in existential terms and that is a mindset that leads to violence. This article, in my opinion, gives an accurate insight into that world.

Members of the Shield Wall Network celebrating Hitler’s birthday on April 20. Credit: Mark Peterson/Redux Images

When Dylann Storm Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, he joined the Bible-study class before gunning down nine African-Americans as they prayed.

Roof still communicates with his admirers on the outside. In jail, he began exchanging letters with a man in Arkansas named Billy Roper. A former schoolteacher and the son and grandson of Klansmen, Roper leads the Shield Wall Network, a group of several dozen white nationalists who organize rallies and conferences — often collaborating with neighboring hate groups — with the goal of building a white ethno-state. “I have a lot of empathy for him. I’m 47, and he’s young enough to be my son,” Roper said of Roof when interviewed recently for this project. “These millennials and now, I guess, Gen-Zers that are coming up, they are not stupid about the demographic trends and what they portend for the future. That angst, that anxiety that plagues them, drives them to […]

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1 Comment

  1. John Ullman on Friday, December 27, 2019 at 10:10 am

    Dylann Roof’s crime was not just an act of racism. It was a political assassination. The first person Roof murdered in that Charleston church was Clementa C. Pinckney, a South Carolina State Senator and a rising star in the Democratic Party. I am at a loss as to why all the articles I’ve seen referencing Roof’s crime fail to mention that.