Online posts paint picture of Longview white supremacist connected to Dylann Roof

The well-manicured, generous lawns of Longview’s Clarendon Street where Earl P. Holt III lives today are a world away from the four-plex unit he occupied just six years ago on St. Louis’ Shaw Boulevard, a street packed with houses built a few feet apart.

As president of the nonprofit Council of Conservative Citizens, Holt has been connected with Dylann Roof, whom authorities say opened fire June 17 in a South Carolina church, killing nine people.

Before the massacre, Roof wrote he was motivated in part by information on the council’s website, which shocked him with stories of black on white crime.

For Holt, the world is a landscape of black and white with few, if any, grays — a fact documented in more than 4,300 Internet posts he has written just this year commenting on topics mostly involving race and politics.

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