Dylan Roof Research Paper

On June 17th, 2015, at a small prayer meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, 9 people were shot and killed by a young man named Dylann Roof. Roof is a self-proclaimed symbol of white supremacy and neo-Nazism. Dylann Roof was often affiliated with the Confederate flag. On his website, titled, “The Last Rhodesian” he is seen posing in pictures with the Confederate flag. Roof has a history of racism and hate. After the shooting, many people asked for South Carolina to take down the Confederate flag which was flying at the statehouse. The question was followed through by the removal of the flag (Costa-Roberts). Pictures of Roof burning, stomping and spitting on the American flag are mixed in with pictures of him grasping and waving the Confederate battle flag, sometimes while holding a gun. "I hate the sight of the American flag," he raged on the site. "Modern American patriotism is an absolute joke. What this racial terrorist meant to say, is a lesson that the diehard defenders of the Confederate flag should no longer ignore: You reject patriotism when you uphold the flag of secession. Most people think that the flag is …show more content…
And it’s just as predictable that the KKK would rally around the Confederate flag on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds in the midst of a push to take it down. This isn’t about rallying for the Confederate flag, it's about rallying for what the flag represents for the Klan, which is what it represented for Charleston shooter Dylan Roof. In rallying around the flag, the Ku Klux Klan will be rallying around Roof, a man who murdered nine Americans for simply being black. He did the same kind of racist violence the group has always done, and the Confederate flag just happens to be one of their