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On this day in 2015, a white supremacist gunman bursted into Mother Emanuel AME, murdering 9 African American Christians huddled around the Scriptures.
Yesterday, I was in Sen. Tim Scott’s office in Washington D.C. to advocate for increased gun safety measures. It hits deeply.
Yesterday, I was in Sen. Tim Scott’s office in Washington D.C. to advocate for increased gun safety measures. It hits deeply.
These are the #emanuel9. Each of them precious in God’s sight. Each of them whose lives were senselessly taken because hate has a home and is able to so easily access a weapon that belongs in war zones.
This is the Bible study material and a Bible from that horrific and tragic day.
It’s on exhibit at the African American History museum in DC.
It’s on exhibit at the African American History museum in DC.
The Spirit of 50/50 loomed large over the #RepublicanConvention last night. This is a ghost I run into every single time I have a conversation about race or injustice with white folks who have not yet done the work to interrogate the way they see the world. #spiritof5050 1/
The Spirit of 50/50 haunts conversations w/ white folks and their allies; compelling them to ennoble whites doing evil by removing moral analysis and supposing all are, not only equally human, but all are equally virtuous and credible. #Spiritof5050 #RepublicanConvention 2/
Case in point: #VeryFinePeople on both sides in #Charlottesville. #Spiritof5050 #RepublicanConvention 3/
Racism devours respectability.
The #Emanuel9 were murdered in church.
My father was assassinated while wearing a suit.
This #SundayMorning let us remember the #Emanuel9. The 9 innocent people who were shot & killed by a man armed w a gun & filled w hate. Let us remember them. Let us ask for grace & remember what it was like to have a president who possessed the words to speak to our broken hearts
Clementa C. Pinckney found that grace
Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd found that grace
