White supremacists distance themselves from Charleston shooter

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The Huffington Post reports that white supremacist groups are working to distance themselves from the Charleston attack on a historically black church in worries that it looks "bad for their movement."

"The media and the left will use this to support their narrative that whites are slaughtering blacks," user MattwhiteAmerica wrote on a discussion thread of the white nationalist website Stormfront.

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