June 19, 2015

Jeb Bush Joins Other GOPers in Downplaying Racism That Fueled the Charleston Attack

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/jeb-bush-latest-gop-candidate-brush-aside-racial-motivations-charleston-shooting
"Before he opened fire in a historic black church in Charleston, killing nine people, Dylann Roof, the alleged shooter, was photographed wearing flags of former racist regimes in Africa that became white supremacist symbols. When he committed the murders, he reportedly told the victims, "I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country and you have to go." And after he was arrested, he confessed to authorities that he committed the crime to start a "race war."
Yet when Jeb Bush addressed an audience of evangelicals on Friday morning, he became the latest Republican presidential candidate to say he had no idea whether racism motivated this horrific attack."