Why The Former African Country Rhodesia Resonates With White Supremacists Last week’s mass shooting that left nine dead at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina has sparked a broader discussion about the nature of white supremacy in the United States. Some of the first photos of Dylann Roof – the man charged with the killings – are steeped in symbols of white supremacy, such as in Facebook profile picture in which he is wearing a jacket with the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and of Rhodesia. Rhodesia – located in an area now occupied by Zimbabwe – is...