References to Rhodesia, the white minority-ruled African territory now known as Zimbabwe, have been made by the 2015 Charleston church shooter and segregationist lawmakers.

The white gunman who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend wore a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest, law enforcement sources say, a reference that has been used before during white supremacist attacks.

The patch — representing Rhodesia, a former white minority-ruled territory in southern Africa in the 1960s and ’70s that would become Zimbabwe — is yet another symbol of how the shooter, Ryan Palmeter, was racist and was influenced by racist ideology, investigators say.

    • Spendrill@lemm.ee
      131·
      10 months ago

      Because they have some fairly disgusting fantasies about what their life would be like if they no longer had to compete for minimum wage jobs with anyone else apart from other poorly educated white men.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        4·
        10 months ago

        If they ever got their wish they’d be screwed, because any company that hired them would become as unproductive as hell because these guys typically have the work ethic of a corpse.