Jeb Bush just minutes ago said he just doesn’t know what the motivation was of the white man who shot and killed nine Black members of a historically Black church.
As the entire nation is now aware, at about 9:00 PM a 21-year old white man opened fire on a Bible study group meeting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. He killed nine people – six women and three men – including the church’s pastor, State Senator Clementa Pinckney.
Dylann Storm Roof confessed to the massacre this morning, after being arrested yesterday in North Carolina.
He is a white supremacist who has now confessed to what many are calling an act of terrorism.
Roof reportedly told one of the three survivors, “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.”
All the victims who were killed were Black.
His jacket in his Facebook photo has patches which are symbols of the apartheid government of South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
His former stepmother’s mother told the Wall Street Journal that Roof “apparently told people that he was involved in groups, racist groups.”
His roommate said he was “planning something like that for six months.†He said Roof “was big into segregation and other stuff,” and added that Roof “said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”
Today, speaking at Ralph Reed’s uber-conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition summit, “Road to Majority 2105,” Jeb Bush delivered a speech, and remarked on Wednesday night’s attack.