its not a mug shot....what is it?
Posted on 06/25/2015 11:21:56 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
I saw the story of Dylann Roof's website break on my Twitter feed this morning, and in a just a few hours it's in the New York Times. The site contains images of Roof, as well as a manifesto in text. Here's the text (icky). Here's an image (icky):
I've taught college undergraduates. If there are no misspellings in this text -- and on a quick scan, I found none -- then Roof, a high-school dropout, didn't write it.
The manifesto is also very well-written, for what it is; I'd want to see a writing sample from Roof, possibly from his high school English teacher, before I concluded Roof wrote it.
So I wonder then, if not Roof, who? Could he simply have appropriate some other racist's work? Well, I Google for phrases from the Manifesto, and I don't find any hits other than this. So who wrote it?
The Times is right to be skeptical:
It is not clear who wrote the words and who took the pictures, but the manifesto appears to trace the evolution of the author’s racist worldview and concludes with a section labeled “An Explanation.
If there's one thing we've learned over the past few years, it's that "Internet evidence is not evidence," because it's too easy to alter or even manufacture it. Provenance is key. So while the site may be authentic, and the pictures may be authentic, there's one big piece of the site that doesn't look authentic at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at correntewire.com ...
A Russian connection? Nothing surprises me these days. Mostly I want to know who took the picture of Roof that were posted online.
How many 9th grade dropouts even heard of Rhodesia?
There’s plenty of College graduates who don’t even know the first thing about it.
I thought that was off from the start.
what better way to destabilize the USA? Race-baiting is America's cancer.
No - a White House connection, do you think all of those pols just decided all at the same time to bring down that flag? No way, this was totally orchestrated and the players were lined up and ready to go.
Hmmmmmmmm. Very interesting.
As another poster asked,earlier....where is the media colonoscopy of his family? Seems to be missing.
I said the same thing. How would a ninth grade dropout be aware of apartheid African nations? How did he even know about Emanuel or Sen. Pinckney? If he was unemployed, how did he have money to travel back and forth between Charleston? If he was estranged from his family, who was supporting him? I would love to see some of his writing from school. And who took the pictures???
I said the same thing. How would a ninth grade dropout be aware of apartheid African nations? How did he even know about Emanuel or Sen. Pinckney? If he was unemployed, how did he have money to travel back and forth between Charleston? If he was estranged from his family, who was supporting him? I would love to see some of his writing from school. And who took the pictures???
I think you might be reaching here.
Spellcheck and Auto-correct can take care of spelling problems.
Just because Roof is a high school drop out doesn’t automatically make him ignorant. There are many online classes one can take. Some accredited and some not. No, I am going to assume he wrote it and he alone is responsible for not only it’s content but his actions.
But then again, maybe he did see that battle flag and it caused him to go berserk.
Manufactered Crisis?
I'd bet a week's worth of money I can ask 20 random people and maybe 1 or 2 will know anything about Rhodesia / Zimbabwe.....
I believe it’s nothing more than a screen shot of his 1st visit in front of a judge after being caught.
That was during his court bond hearing. He was not in the actual courtroom, just like a holding room with video. That was when the family members addressed him. I watched it on TV.
that might just fit.
Thanks!
Ilovesarah2012,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3304191/posts?page=1#1
Thanks for posting this!
LucyT
Ping!
ah that makes good sense as the image is really pretty cheesey quality wise
Thank you.
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