Dylann Roof Massacre: The Charleston Church Shooting

In a speech, Frederick Douglass stated “[t]here are seventy-two crimes…which, if committed by a black man…subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.” While that is not the case today, racism continues to be an important and urgent issue in the United States. Although the shadow of racism continues to haunt Americans, race relations among people in America have slowly improved. From the active practice of institutional racism during the 19th and early 20th century, the spike in criticism against institutionalized racism during the Civil Rights Movement, and the dissolution of racial barriers in the past two decades, the wane of racial tension in America is evident.

Over the past 30 years there have been a lot of events that have had an impact on the development of crisis intervention. One that really sticks out is the Columbine High School massacre. This event occurred on April 20, 1999 in Littleton Colorado. “On this very sad

Dylan Roof, the accused killer of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, SC, church, is facing 33 federal indictments, including hate crime and church arson charges that could lead to the death penalty if he is convicted.

The article “I’m Black, You’re White, Who’s Innocent?’ is an analysis of the black and white racist situation that America has been facing. It is a claim to the fact that both the groups have created the racist situation. Some whites accept that the racist attitude that enforced slavery was due to the fact that whites in ‘innocence’ felt they were superior to blacks. The pursuit of power-convinced them they were entitled to it. Once convinced it was easy to believed in innocence. Conversely, they were

Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old murderer of nine, was arrested for his crimes in June. According to many Roof was just a very confused and mentally ill young man, but surprisingly he was completely sane when he committed these murders. When asked about his reasoning behind his actions, Roof had this to say, “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case... this prompted me to type in the words ‘black on White crime’ into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders...At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of

The Charleston church shooting was a shooting that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, on June 17, 2015. The FBI said Dylann Roof the man that killed nine African American at the church in Charleston should not have been able to buy a gun. Dylan Roof illegally bought a 45 caliber glock handgun on april 11 2015.

Dylann Roof will face the death penalty. Roof is accused of killing nine people during a Bible study on July 17 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Prosecutors are trying to get Roof the death penalty because he has killed more than two people, and other lives were put into risks. Prosecutors also mentioned that Roof does not feel any remorse for the killings that he committed. Roof also have some federal charges, this includes: hate crimes and obstruction of the practice of religion.

The reason for the numerous amounts of reformed gun laws in the past century are due to the

Race, Incarceration and American Values explains how incarceration is a legalized form of genocide that is slowly destroying the fiber of African American communities. Glenn Loury, along with Pamela Karian, Tommie Shelby and Loic Wacquant discuss how America has let fear and greed cause a inequitable landscape for its inhabitants who have unfortunately been born on the wrong side of the hill. The principals of equality and freedom on which America was founded on has become nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Maybe the pride America displays to the World as a Global power, incapable of wrong doing is what is holding it back from recognizing the mistakes it made and undergoing to process of change. Or maybe it 's what we fear most, it 's what we thought in our head but never dare to say. That it 's a careful crafted system to keep those with power in power.

Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, the writer of the article “The Double Standard in How the Media is Portraying the Las Vegas Shooter,” is anti-racial profiling. Her article claims that white killers are humanized. The mass shooter of the recent mass shooting, Stephen Paddock, is white who the media seemed to include some personal likes of Paddock. Ruiz-Grossman states that if Stephen Paddock were black or muslim, then he would be immediately labeled a terrorists, and only a terrorists. Ruiz-Grossman writes, “When it comes to mass violence by white people, news outlets have repeatedly been criticized for their slowness to label attacks by white perpetrators as “terrorism,” while they’re more likely to use the label when attackers are perceived as nonwhite - and specifically, Muslim” (Ruiz-Grossman, 24). Ruiz-Grossman also states that the reason why white perpetrators are not labeled as terrorists is because of the president. Trump has called Paddock a “crazed lunatic,” not a terrorists. Brent Staples, a victim of racial profiling, tells his story about how he goes on about his life with someone constantly watching over his shoulder. He talks about being mistaken for a burglar, about being judged for the way he dresses, about being seen as a criminal, etcetera.

In later years, the Columbine High School Massacre reflected tales of adolescents captured by darkness where they took part in an evangelical youth movement (Pike 647). This movement caused an uproar in legislation involving church and state (Pike 647). The massacre also effected public school dress codes and behavior policies, and most importantly, shaped Americans’ reasoning about teens deviance and normality (Pike 647).

When the Jason Stockley Verdict came out, St.Louis went on lockdown, businesses closed, roads were shut down, and white people were scared. Another black man had been unjustly shot by the police, and people were understandably angry. When a friend and I conversed about going to a protest, a young white man told us that he didn’t understand why we were so angry, he said, “ you could have been born in some poor village in India and would have to work in a shoe factory,” this undoubtedly made me very upset because the young man would never understand what it is like to fear for his brothers, father, or cousins not coming home because they were racially profiled or killed by the police. But, what I realized is that this boy was a victim of White

On June 17, 2015, nine people were killed while at a prayer meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Charleston, South Carolina, one of America’s oldest black churches. Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, opened fire over the congregation after attending the service for approximately an hour. The victims include Rev. Clementa Pinckney, South Carolina’s state senator, and his sister, in addition to five other women and two men. The shooting is considered by most to have been a racially fueled hate crime, as its perpetrator has a history of racism over social media. Immediately before pulling the trigger, Roof was overheard saying, “I have to do it. You rape our women, and you are taking over our country. And you have to

Dylan Roof's actions in South Carolina should be regarded as an act of terrorism. The acts themselves were not only planned to install fear into the public but, to create a greater divide between races. In the months leading up to the attacks Dylan increasingly withdrew from society and started to adopt more and more radical behavior. A blog he ran stated that one of the purposes of the attack was to start a race war. In addition, Charleston was picked for the target city because it had one of the highest ratios of African Americans to Whites. The attack alone may not be a form of domestic terrorism however, the motives behind the attack certainly push it into that category.

Bang, bang this was the noise the crowd heard in the Methodist Episcopal Church after Dylann Roof fired his firearm. In the article from the New York Times on July 10, 2015 “Background Check Flaw Let Dylann Roof Buy Gun F.B.I Says” was written by Micheal S. Schimidt. Too many people can easily walk into stores that sells gun and get one with minimal wait time.