Sunday, June 21, 2015

Was killer Dylann Roof a New Atheist ?

  How will this society get its anti-hate message across to thousands of deranged jobless high school drop outs completely INVISIBLE to our failed mental health system ? Even " white trash " needs a little attention. In general poor whites have been invisible for decades now. Years ago socialist Michael Harrington consigned them to " The Other America ". The War on Poverty was not all about black people here.


Ron Ruggieri
Ron Ruggieri 14 minutes ago
Why is it so hard to find a WORD about this Dylann Roof's religion ? Apart from his racist obsession he seems an unreal ideological blank . A " useful idiot " for a shadowy political organization ? Right now he seems to be striking evidence of the failure of the American mental health system. I am very suspicious of his " manifesto ".
        New Atheism at work here ? Or just Reality TV ?
                                                 EXCERPT FROM HIS MANIFESTO
    "  But what about the White people that are left behind? What about the White children who, because of school zoning laws, are forced to go to a school that is 90 percent black? Do we really think that that White kid will be able to go one day without being picked on for being White, or called a “white boy”? And who is fighting for him? Who is fighting for these White people forced by economic circumstances to live among negroes? No one, but someone has to...."

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