Why blacks see Dylann Roof as a terrorist and whites don’t

In the two weeks since a gunman walked inside a historic black church in Charleston and, after some prayer, shot and killed nine people, two competing narratives about what happened have emerged.

Was the shooter a terrorist? Or was he simply a lost and animus-filled individual who committed a one-off hate crime?

Apparently the answer depends in large part on whether you are black or white. A CNN/ORC International poll released Thursday revealed a pretty stark racial divide. CONT.

Janell Ross, Washington Post

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