A wake-up call for Latino media from Charleston shooter Dylann Roof
*To use the social media term, BAM! Cindy Casares holds no punches in this piece. Accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof wrote in his blog that he respected Hispanic media because it understood the White elite. “… the shows and even the commercials were more White than our own,” he wrote. [tweet_dis]Spanish television needs to take a long look at itself when a white supremacist, accused mass murderer admires your racial choices.[/tweet_dis] VL
By Cindy Casares, Latina
On a website that was confirmed by law enforcement officials to belong to Charleston shooter Dylann Roof sits a manifesto on race and ethnicity with a disturbing “compliment” for Spanish-language media.
[pullquote]”A mass-murdering racist has looked at your creative choices in this arena with great admiration. It’s time to rethink the way you do business.”[/pullquote]The site, lastrodhesian.com, was registered on February 9 in Roof’s name, and features photos of him with the Confederate flag, visiting slave museums and confederate battle sites, among other racist fanboy idiocy. It also contains a screed, nearly 2,500 words long, explaining the author’s thoughts on various ethnic and racial minorities. Only 86 of those words are devoted to Hispanics, no doubt because the author’s exposure to Latinos was limited mostly to television. But that, apparently, was enough for him to figure out race relations in Latin America.
“I remember while watching hispanic television stations, the shows and even the commercials were more White than our own. They have respect for White beauty, and a good portion of hispanics are White. It is a well known fact that White hispanics make up the elite of most hispanics countries. There is good White blood worht saving in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and even Brasil. [sic],” Roof wrote on the site.
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