As funerals are scheduled for the nine victims of last week's hate crime perpetrated against an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the fallout from the massacre has taken on a national dimension and reached into the presidential campaign. The racist manifesto written by the confessed killer, Dylann Roof, was inspired by the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, which had made financial contributions to two Republican presidential hopefuls. The Republican candidates have also been reticent about weighing in on the controversy surrounding South Carolina's continued use of the Confederate flag, considered a raw symbol of racism and slavery. Jorge Gestoso reports from Washington. teleSUR
