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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Are Media Organizations So Reluctant to Call Dylann Roof a Terrorist?
The Daily Beast reports that a high school classmate of Roofs said he made a lot of racist jokes. Sylvia Johnson, cousin of the pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (who was one of the dead), says a survivor told her Roof said, "You rape our women and youre taking over the country. You have to go."
For many black people, it is clear that Roofs alleged actions are an act of terror, making him a terror suspect, not a shooting suspect. But so far most media outlets have referred to Roof as the latter.
Anthea Butler, associate professor of religion and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania wrote for the Washington Post, media outlets have already found ways to legitimize his alleged crimes, a courtesy that is seldom extended to suspects of color.
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yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)But I think of a terrorist as someone who uses a bomb to kill people. I never equate guns with terrorism. Perhaps as the focus is explained I can get on board with this too.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)No bombs in Munich 1972.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)So many of my beliefs have been regurgitated from a variety of sources and quite frankly many have been wrong. Of course I am a liberal on the big ticket items, but some of the things I think about like details of race, environment, policing and other issues I do not have an indept knowledge of things and I am not particularly an intellect with thinking at all. So being on DU has given me such an education and the collective has shown me a great deal in my deficits in many areas that I am slowly improving my overall knowledge which is so gratifying to me. This place to me is priceless.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Is generally the use of violence against a civilian target for political purposes by a non-state actor.
kath
(10,565 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)which should have been more than enough reason for his own father NOT to give him a gun. But there is now no denying that he clearly also had a political agenda.
The Boston Marathon bomber wasn't coddled like this.
rocktivity