“I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.”
I am a white woman and I do not consent to your use of me as a tool to oppress black men and women.
You didn’t kill nine people for me, you selfish, hate-filled human being.
I am overwhelmed with grief that yet another white man has decided that at he can treat black people however he likes. That he can treat his black neighbors as Other. That he has decided that he has the right to choose whether they live or die.
I remember these names, these people who are no longer here:
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
Cynthia Hurd
Susie Jackson
Ethel Lee Lance
Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor
Reverend Clementa Pinckney
Tywanza Sanders
Daniel L. Simmons
Myra Thompson
I’m so sorry they are gone, that their lives were stolen from them by a racist ideology of which we can not seem to rid ourselves. I keep their families, friends and community in my thoughts.
Update: Also see Stephanie Zvan’s “Not Yours, Not Ever” for a more eloquent denouncement of the killer’s claim to be protecting white women.