Dylann Roof became the first person sentenced to die for a federal hate crime in the history of the U.S. after he gunned down nine praying church members in Charleston, South Carolina. From his white working-class origins and few friends in school to an obsession with his own ancestry and the “purity” of his blood, GQ dives deep to see what drove him to murderous hate.
From GQ:
Read Full Article »Roof told the jury in his closing statement, “Anyone…who thinks that I am filled with hatred has no idea what real hate is. They don't know anything about me. They don't know what real hatred looks like.”
Because I know exactly who Dylann Roof is, I know that he is hatred, and because I know that he is hatred, I understand why he thought he could do the impossible and trump the everlasting, the eternal. But he could not, and no one ever will.
