Charleston shooter left racist manifesto on website, authorities say
Authorities in the US state of South Carolina say that the white man who shot dead nine African-Americans in a historic black church this week left a racist manifesto on his website.
The website, called "The Last Rhodesian," was registered under Dylann Roof's name. The website emerged on Saturday in which the 21-year-old vehemently denounces African-Americans and appears in photographs with guns and burning the US flag.
On Wednesday night, Roof opened fire at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, leaving nine African-American worshipers dead.
The 2,500-word manifesto on the website does not bear Roof's name.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was investigating the website. The agency said it was "taking steps to verify the authenticity" of the website.
"I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight," the racist manifesto stated.
"I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country.
"We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the Internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me."
Speaking at the annual US Conference of Mayors in San Francisco on Friday, US President Barack Obama said the shooting incident shows the need for vigilance against racism.
"The apparent motivations of the shooter remind us that racism remains a blight that we have to combat together," Obama said.
On Saturday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton condemned “institutional racism” in the United States.
“Race remains a deep fault line in America,” Clinton said, speaking in front of the US Conference of Mayors in San Francisco. “Millions of people of color still experience racism in their everyday lives.”
She stated that “it’s tempting to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident, to believe that in today’s America bigotry is largely behind us, that institutionalized racism no longer exists.”
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