[ConservingFreedom]

[Lindsey] Graham, who is on his way to Charleston, said his niece did not recall Roof making any statements that were related to race.

“I just think he was one of these whacked out kids. I don’t think it’s anything broader than that,” Graham said.

- http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/politics/lindsey-graham-charleston-shooting/index.html

[mrsmel]

That answer works almost ubiquitously when blacks mob some old white person as their target for the knockout "game"-even when they explicitly use racial epithets such as "honkey" and "cracker" (and it matters not that those terms don't bother most whites, what matters is that the users of them believed they did, in a racially pejorative way, to their victims). Even after that, these crimes are never charged as "hate crimes". Even when no theft occurs.

[MortMan]

Given the latter spurts of news from the guy, I would hope that Graham and Bush would come out and say that “If he said it was racism, it was racism. But he will be tried for multiple counts of murder and attempted murder - because that’s what he appears to have committed.”