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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.
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.
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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/
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Racism devours respectability.
The #Emanuel9 were murdered in church.
My father was assassinated while wearing a suit.
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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
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