Dylann Roof wrote a rambling racist manifesto, declaring his hatred for blacks, weeks before he launched his murderous assault on a church in Charleston, the Telegraph can reveal.
He posted it on a website called The Last Rhodesian along with dozens of bizarre photographs of himself, posing with a handgun and a Confederate flag and, in another, spitting on the American flag.
The site describes how he was radicalised, why he selected Charleston for his attack and ends with a childish apology for any typographical errors.
“I have no choice,” he wrote. “I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight.
“I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country.
“We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”
Details of the site began circulating on Twitter on Saturday morning before The Telegraph confirmed the site was registered in the name of Dylann Roof in February, suggesting his attack was months in the planning.
Photographs include him at a Confederate cemetary from the Civil War and at a graveyard for slaves. In others he poses with a Glock .45 handgun (apparently with a laser sight) that he is believed to have used in the attack.
A number are taken during a day out at the Museum and Library of Confederate History in Greenville, South Carolina.
And the number 1488 appears scraped into a sandy beach in apparent reference to a 14-word phrase coined by George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."
The name of the site once again alludes to Rhodesia – a flag he had sewn to his jacket.
He says the event that awakened his feelings was the murder of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black high-school student shot dead by a white neighbourhood watch co-ordinator in 2012.
“I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was,” he wrote.
From there, he said, it was a short step to becoming more “racially aware”. He goes on to defend segregation as a necessary measure to protect whites from black.
“N*****s are stupid and violent. At the same time they have the capacity to be very slick. Black people view everything through a racial lense [sic]. Thats what racial awareness is, its viewing everything that happens through a racial lense [sic]. They are always thinking about the fact that they are black. This is part of the reason they get offended so easily, and think that some thing are intended to be racist towards them, even when a White person wouldnt be thinking about race.
He rails against the assumption that all whites must have owned slaves, Jews and America's Hispanic population.
But he says he is particularly horrified by the situation in Europe.
"I saw that the same things were happening in England and France, and in all the other Western European countries," he writes. "Again I found myself in disbelief.
"As an American we are taught to accept living in the melting pot, and black and other minorities have just as much right to be here as we do, since we are all immigrants. But Europe is the homeland of White people, and in many ways the situation is even worse there."
In one photograph he can be seen spitting on the US flag. In another, he has set the Stars and Stripes alight.
“I hate the sight of the American flag,” he writes. “Modern American patriotism is an absolute joke. People pretending like they have something to be proud while White people are being murdered daily in the streets.”
Another photo shows Roof posing on Sullivan's Island, the entry point for almost half the 400,000 slaves brought from Africa to British North America.
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