From the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, Dylann Roof may have been a regular commenter at neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. The lethal gentleman: Lisa Wade on the “benevolent sexism” behind Dylann Roof’s racism (and more). A look at how the Council of Conservative Citizens promotes white primacy, and G.O.P. ties. Ben Carson violates the first — and second and third and eleventeenth — rule of being a black conservative, by declaring that racism is not dead after all. Brian Beutler on why Republicans didn’t want to say the Charleston killer is a racist: If racism is severe enough in America to inspire terrorism, it might also inspire something else — systemic discrimination. A survey finds law enforcement agencies consider right-wing attacks like Charleston to be a greater threat than Islamic extremism. “Southern Avenger” Jack Hunter repents: I was wrong about the Confederate flag. What this cruel war was over: Ta-Nehisi Coates on how the meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it. The (Charleston) Post and Courier is asking every member of the South Carolina legislature about the confederate flag (“meanwhile this is Mississippi's state flag”).
Paul Krugman on slavery’s long shadow: Despite changing attitudes on several fronts, race in America is an issue that won’t go away. A professor crowdsources a syllabus on the Charleston shootings: Chad Williams, an associate professor at Brandeis University, took to Twitter, where his #CharlestonSyllabus hashtag quickly became a valuable resource. Why a black church? When Dylann Roof opened fire at Emanuel A.M.E., he attacked the historical heart of the African American community in the South. Was Denmark Vesey, the co-founder of Charleston’s Emanuel Church, a victim of racist paranoia, too? Fox News race experts so mad Obama allowed to use n-word and they aren’t. Obama said the n-word to make a point — the media's reaction proved him right (and more and more). Black people aren’t making things up: Sam P.K. Collins on the science behind “racial battle fatigue”. From Ferguson to Charleston and beyond, anguish about race keeps building. Chris Lebron on why it’s time for a new black radicalism: Conventional tactics have failed — to break the cycle of rage and despair, we need to be clear-eyed about which path the struggle must take. Now get off my lawn and go read some philosophy — and no, Ayn Rand is not a philosopher.
