Violence in the Neo-Confederate Narrative/ A warning to churches in Mobile, Alabama to avoid a Dylann Roof Repeat

I am going to have a series of posts regarding violence and the Reunion in Mobile, AL. They will have a label violence. I strongly recommend that people in Mobile, Alabama read them all.

Dylann Roof picture on his web page prior to his massacre of church goers. 

Back in 2017 I wrote a short essay published in the Dallas Morning News about the narratives of violence put forth by the neo-Confederate movement. This is the link to the article.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/17/confederate-heritage-root-recent-tragedies-troubles

Anger is boiling over in the neo-Confedeate movement as one Confederate monument after another is taken down.

Dylann Roof

I want to repeat that there hasn't been a shooting at any of the prior Sons Confederate Reunions. However, as the neo-Confederate world crumbles, and in the Southern Alabama region is focused on the Confederacy some unstable person with a gun could end up committing a massacre.

Dylann Roof wasn't a member of the Council of Conservative Citizens, he was a reader of the incendiary rhetoric they promoted. The Sons of Confederate Veterans offers for sale material that is in my opinion inflammatory.

At the same time there is a continuing radicalization of the neo-Confederate movement.  I will be posting about that also. The head of "Heritage" operations is a Walter Donald Kennedy and he has included his brother James Ronald Kennedy as an operative.

This is their website http://www.kennedytwins.com/

The Sons of Confederate Veterans likes to express outrage over what they think is an unjust focus on Dylann Roof. At the same time they offer for sale books praising the white terrorist Red Shirts who operated in South Carolina during Reconstruction.

Again look for the posts with the tag violence on this blog.