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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a really good article about the assumption of mental illness which the media automatically applies to white people who commit mass murders, even in the absence of any solid evidence. The label "mentally ill" in this case detracts from the real issue which is racist violence.

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/18/its_not_about_mental_illness_the_big_lie_that_always_follows_mass_shootings_by_white_males/
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I've lived in DC-area communities that were twice terrorized by black serial killers:  first, the shotgun stalker from NJ who went around shooting people in Mt. Pleasant and Columbia Heights in the early 1990s and then the later spree of killings by Muhammed/Malvo.  In both cases the killers were black men assumed and widely characterized as mentally ill and deranged like Holmes in Colorado.

I view this asshole in South Carolina as a racist engaging in political terrorism similar to McVeigh or the Muslim chaplain who shot up the army base.  Most would.  Having the liberal media and black journalists tell those of us who do not make the assumptions we're told automatically apply to white criminals only makes things worse.  You are just feeding the flames as this killer hoped. [/quote]

What I am saying is that racism is a systemic problem which can create violence like this. It does take a lunatic to actually carry out an act like this but racism is the fuel that starts the fire. We do not know that this man would have killed people if he had not been driven by a racist belief system. Sure, people with personality disorders and mental illness are most vulnerable to actually carrying out these heinous acts but this does not erase the problem of racism which started the fire and fanned the flames for Roof. When you blame mental illness in and of itself, you minimize the problem of racism which must be addressed. This is not the same as a school shooting, for instance, which is a separate problem entirely and must be addressed as such. Roof is a zealot who was inspired by racism and able to carry out this act of racist violence due to whatever mental deficiencies he has but MANY people have those same deficiencies. We cannot blame mental illness alone.[/quote]

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