Posted on 06/23/2015 10:06:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Dylann Storm Roof’s name will deservedly go down in infamy as one of America’s most depraved and retrograde serial killers.
He should also go down in history as one of the least competent interpreters of that history.
By this point, nearly everyone knows that Roof’s self-described moment of racial “awakening,” so to speak, was the Trayvon Martin case, in which the 17-year-old teen Trayvon Martin was shot in self-defense by George Zimmerman. Roof, in his nauseating manifesto, says he first came to be a racist when he read about this case on Wikipedia, and, to paraphrase him, didn’t see what the big deal was. From this simple, and pretty standard read on the case, he then somehow moved onto believing that blacks were serial rapists out to rape white women and steal America from under its presumptively white population.
This isn’t just crazy; it’s mind-bogglingly stupid.
Let’s back up. When the Martin story first broke, I wrote one of the earliest articles expressing skepticism of the official media narrative that Martin was a helpless victim, and also pointing out holes in his suspension record. For my trouble, I got tarred by Media Matters as an apologist for racism who thought Martin deserved what he got. Neither of these things was true, but given that I worked for Glenn Beck at the time, I presume the smear was really targeted at him, with my reputation intended as a casualty of war. No harm done, I suppose, since both Beck and I emerged from it unscathed.
I bring this up because I want to establish my credentials as someone who was one of the most pro-Zimmerman media voices, even at a time when it was politically inconvenient to be such. With hindsight, I believe my initial suspicions were more than vindicated, and that Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict was the only outcome that could’ve been reached in the case without entirely miscarrying justice. More than that, I genuinely believe Zimmerman was innocent of any wrongdoing and did defend himself.
So having established that I would’ve agreed with Roof’s initial read that the protests and racial anger that were stoked by this case were entirely unwarranted, let me now explain in painstaking detail why his jump from that to defending white nationalist racial hatred was literally the exact opposite of the lesson a pro-Zimmerman observer should’ve taken from the Martin case.
Here are the facts of the case, as Zimmerman’s defenders saw them: Trayvon Martin was known to be a hothead who was chronically in trouble with his school for acts of petty violence. There was evidence that he was a drug user, which probably fueled his instability. Moreover, Martin was an imposing 5’11’’ with a football player’s body, while Zimmerman was a dumpy, out of shape man who stood a meagre 5’7’’. It’s quite plausible that if Martin attacked Zimmerman, the latter would’ve been helpless to defend himself with anything but his gun.
Flash forward to the night when Zimmerman followed Martin while making his neighborhood watch duties, only to later end up shooting Martin in self-defense. There is ample evidence that Martin had a motive to attack Zimmerman.
That motive? Homophobia.
Even the star prosecution witness in the Zimmerman trial, Rachel Jeantel, admitted that Martin was frightened that the “cracker” Zimmerman was a gay pedophile who was following him with the intent to sexually assault him. It is reasonable to conclude that Martin, who we’ve established was easily angered, would’ve seen this as an excuse to teach a lesson to the man he thought was trolling for sex. Zimmerman panicked due to being helpless against the stronger Martin, who was apparently beating his head against the pavement, if forensics are any guide, so he shot him.
If the narrative I’ve just outlined is correct, then the key ingredient that led to Trayvon Martin being shot is not his blackness, but his homophobia. According to the most pro-Zimmerman narrative it is possible to construct, the minimum thing we know about Trayvon Martin is that he attacked another man blindly out of fear of the other man’s sexuality, which he saw as predatory, and his own bigotry got him killed.
Now, ask yourself this: If my narrative is the truth, then who does Dylann Storm Roof resemble more? George Zimmerman or Trayvon Martin?
Dylann Storm Roof was the aggressor in his case. So was Trayvon Martin.
Dylann Storm Roof feared his targets’ sexuality, and even accused them of harboring the desire to “rape our women.” Trayvon Martin also feared his target’s sexuality and saw it as carte blanche to attack him.
Dylann Storm Roof operated outside the law in order to protect against what he saw as external threats. So did Trayvon Martin.
Furthermore, in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin trial, it was not pro-Zimmerman forces that transformed into the sort of lynch mob that Dylann Storm Roof idolized. It was, instead, the New Black Panther Party, who were staunchly pro-Martin, and who even went so far as to put out a bounty on Zimmerman’s head. Zimmerman’s defenders, on the other hand, squarely put their faith in the criminal justice system — the very thing Roof apparently believed was insufficient to defend the white race, hence his affection for extralegal hate groups like the Klan or Skinheads.
The scale of misinterpretation required for Dylann Storm Roof to read about the Martin case — a case where his own side’s interpretation is that a bigot got himself killed by being a bigot — is mind-boggling. It’s like reading the story of the Scopes Monkey Trial and concluding that, in order to live up to the spirit of Clarence Darrow, you should censor what is taught in public education.
Ultimately, Dylann Storm Roof most likely saw in the Martin case what he, in his viciousness and hate, wanted to see. But that doesn’t mean we should excuse his utter inability to comprehend the case as even Zimmerman’s defenders understood it to take place. Nor does it mean we should reopen that caustic old wound because this sick, twisted and vile young man decided to open so many new ones with his spray of bullets. Dylann Storm Roof has taken the lives of numerous innocent people. I hope we will not allow him to take what should be remembered as a triumph of truth and justice with him, too.
Lets kill him.
Point of order. He's a mass murderer, not a serial killer. Not the same thing.
That isn’t what I got out of the manifesto. It seemed the killer, like a lot of us, was upset that Trayvon was glorified when he probably was the aggressor. The media, the killer realized, were RACIST. Their fear of coming down hard on the thuggish behavior of Trayvon came from their racist fear of being labeled racist. He learned how many black on white crimes go unreported.
Of course, the rest of us just talked about how bigoted the media are and what low expectations of decency they hold for black youth. This sick killer did far worse than just cower in racist fear like the media. He went to a church and killed some praying, loving people. He is so very much worse than any racist cop or thuggish youth.
I don’t think you can “logically deduce” his motives or thought processes. Roof is mentally unsound and under medication which contributed even more to his instability. Too bad the media is more obsessed with red herrings/nonsense such as the Rebel flag or “widespread White supremacy/privilege” instead of the reality of mental illness with respect to this individual. Doesn’t fit with the fascist media narrative.
Ban Trayvon.
When can we blame the media for pushing the false narritives of trayvon and fergeson and baltimore that apparently takes a marginal disgruntled racist like roofy and turn him into a completely disgruntled racist violent psychopath....
By pushing an agitation narritive that gives excuse for black racists to burn down their own city does it not give the white racists another excuse to respond in kind in by their own twisted thinking....
By the media fanning the flames of hatred via false narritives will never get the media in trouble. Instead the false narritive will eventually become as legitimate as the media originally wished it to be....
Give the few remaining white racists like roofy a good excuse in their twisted minds by lying to the public and then parading the burnt cities through all media formats and they will eventually have their high rated genuine race war they originally and falsely claimed that fergeson and trayvon was....
Since thugs are the big deities in America today just as the Nazi thug Horst Wessel was back in the Nazi days, I am following this trend by creating my own song about the thug, Trayvon Martin. Instead of calling it the Horst Wessel Lied, I am calling it the Trayvon Martin Lied and I recorded it to the tune of Horst Wessel Lied. So, without further ado, I present to our sick culture the Trayvon Martin Lied (if you have problem with the lyrics, I wrote them out below the youtube):
My Trayvon Theory, which I already Posted on the WP Comments section linked to the Gun Control Push.
I think it’s pretty clear. The Killer looked at the Trayvon Case and came away with what People who were paying attention to facts came away with, the Media and their Butt Buddy Obama were Framing a “White” Hispanic for Murder of an innocent Black Child. They got past the Hispanic angle because Zimmerman does not denote a Hispanic Name.
It was a Show Trial and we all know it. Even the Moron Killer saw though it. I think at that point he came to a conclusion that Whites are now considered Fair Game while feeding his Paranoid Thought Process.
Just my theory. Don’t forget the Fairy Tale of “Hand’s Up, Don’t Shoot” that was used to frame the Cop.
Just my $.02.
A long rambling article that never seems to make a point. But Roof drew the right conclusion from the Trayvon case, then made the most insane, counterproductive , drug fueled decision he could possibly have made.
Correct.
A crazy insane young white man killed 9 innocent people over the lies and distortions of St. Trayvon.
I wonder how much longer normal white people in their right minds will swallow the loads of lies and bigotry against us as we see more Trayvons and see more racist atrocities like Ferguson and Baltimore.
CWII is coming.
Well said.
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