The New York Times reports evidence of Dylann Roof's racism that's going to be hard for even Jeb Bush to ignore:

A website with a white supremacist manifesto features dozens of photos of Dylann Storm Roof, the man accused of killing nine people at a church in Charleston, S.C., posing with weapons, burning an American flag and visiting Southern historic sites and Confederate soldiers’ graves....

The site, the lastrhodesian.com, features an opening photo of a bloodied dead white man on the floor. The picture appears to be a shot from “Romper Stomper,” an Australian movie about neo-Nazis....

That's from The New York Times; go to the link for evidence that this is real.

Gawker and Talking Points Memo have posted the full text of the manifesto. The document is going to lead to a lot of smug triumphalism on the part of right-wingers who seek respectability, they're going to say, See? He got his ideology from fringe-dwellers, not from Fox News or Breitbart!

There's some truth in that. Roof clearly picked up ideas and symbols from far outside the conservative mainstream. As the Times reports:

Several photos show him with the number 88 or 1488 written in sand. The numbers are well-known white supremacy codes.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s glossary of skinhead terms, “Fourteen stands for the ‘14 words’ slogan coined by David Lane, who is serving a 190-year sentence for his part in the assassination of a Jewish talk show host: ‘We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.’” The letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so 88 is a known code for “Heil, Hitler.”

But there simply isn't a big, solid border fence with "respectable" conservatism on one side and Roof's inspirations on the other. This is from Roof's manifesto:

The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. 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. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?

Mainstream conservatism was obsessed with the Trayvon Martin case, and specifically with defending George Zimmerman's actions, in the aftermath of Martin's death. And "black-on-white crime"? It's also been an obsession of the mainstream right:

Since Obama actually took office, ... [Matt] Drudge has seriously stepped up his “scary black people” coverage. There was, in September of 2009, the story he heavily publicized of a kid on a bus in Illinois getting beaten up. A kid on a bus in Illinois getting beaten up is not really national news -- until Drudge makes it so. The fact that the beater was black and the victim white is why Drudge made it national news. Rush Limbaugh made the subtext explicit: “In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering.”

This is the narrative that Drudge is trying to create, especially on slow news weekends when there’s nothing real to aggregate and post: The blacks are rising up and attacking the whites. If that sounds a bit crazy, in a Charles Manson way, then you’re obviously not paying attention. Black people are angry and they’re taking over! When Barack Obama was campaigning to win Chicago the Olympic games, Matt Drudge led with a terrifying photo of (black) gang violence and the breathless, all-caps headline, “OLYMPIC SPIRIT.”

Here was a Fox headline from last year: "SHARPTON CONDEMNS BLACK ON BLACK CRIME, NOW SHOULD SPEAK OUT ON BLACK ON WHITE RACIST ATTACKS." Here was one from earlier this month: "Todd Starnes: Do Democrats Care About Black-on-White Crime?" Here's a typical Fox News segment: