Greenfield: Media narrative: Half-Black Oregon Killer is a White Supremacist

Was he a Half-White Supremacist?

October 2, 2015

According to the LA Times, Chris Harper Mercer, the Oregon killer, was a "White Supremacist".

One slight problem. Mercer identified as multi-racial. His mother was black. He doesn't seem to have even known his father. He identified with black TV killer Vester Lee Flanagan.

This doesn't seem to have stopped the media with George Zimmerman who was labeled a white Hispanic, so maybe Chris Harper Mercer was a white Black? Was he a Half-White Supremacist?

I'm not an expert on "White Supremacism", but being half-black and then shooting a bunch of white Christians would make him the worst White Supremacist ever. If being half-white and hating white Christians makes you a White Supremacist... then Obama should be investigated for being a White Supremacist.

So far we've got media accounts of him being into paganism, the IRA and an anti-Christian "conservative Republican". His mother claimed that he was mentally ill. That last one is probably the most relevant of the bunch.

Now it's not impossible for a half-black man to be into Nazi gear and IRA posters and just about anything he likes. There were plenty of black soldiers fighting for Hitler. But it's disingenuous to pretend that he's the poster boy for a movement whose members wouldn't have him.

Right now there's no coherent identity here. And that's normal for crazy people. And it's either that or Mercer was one of the half-white Neo-Nazi IRA anti-Christian Republican killers. And you know how big of a problem they are.

...."I think the mental health and religion angles are the key. This just sounds like another mentally disabled, no father, fame craving lunatic, that was full of evil.".....

How on earth the mother or father allowed their son with 'Asberger's' to have the arsenal of guns he had is way beyond sanity on the parents part. Likewise with these characters who the parents knew had serious mental issues......

I’m guessing...there were very few black students. It would be interesting to know if any black kids were even in the classroom.

He knew who would be in that classroom. He was a student in that class. He first targeted the professor teaching the class, saying he wanted to do that for a long time. Then he targeted Christians, maybe all white Christians. Eventually we should probably know if any were black.

Obama impresses me as one who hates the 'white' part of him...same for this guy.

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