BLOG THE SHOCK HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
As most of you know nine black worshipers were killed by a white supremacist who attended the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church on Calhoun St in Charleston SC on June 17th. After about an hour in bible study he pulled out a gun and murdered nine worshipers. As tensions mounted and Hate metastasized and white and black Hate Baiters flocked to Charleston the families of the slain nine worshipers fired a shock heard round the world.
They forgave the murderer. Throughout the nation and, in fact, the world, people were shocked, stopped to reread the words of the families of the murdered nine"
"I forgive you, my family forgives you," said Anthony Thompson. "We would like you to take this opportunity to repent. ... Do that and you'll be better off than you are right now."
Repent for your sins, and ask for
God's mercy on your soul. Repent and confess,
and "you'll be OK."
All the families had deep pain in their hearts but confronted the murder with Love, not Hate.
Nevertheless Hate raised it's ugly head. The Westboro Church and the New Black Panthers came to town with Hate, but the Charleston black community publicly confronted the Hate mongers. When Malik Zulu Shabazz called out Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the local black leadership calling on the black community to "to finish the mission of a former black slave who wanted to kill as many white people as possible during a planned 1822 revolt.
. National Action Network countered Shabazz’s message by insisting that violence is not the solution.
“That’s exactly what he wanted. Why would we, as logical thinking people, African Americans in particular, think that giving Dylan Roof what he wanted is the right way to do this?” said Pastor Thomas Dixon.
Local leaders say they just will not tolerate groups who try to stir up problems or form a rift between Charleston residents.
“We are asking them to please leave Charleston with that hate. We are united, black and white, in the City of Charleston to get over this and to bring solidarity and unity to Charleston,” said Elder Johnson.
However, whenever pure goodness rises from the ashes of tragedy Hate rises up. The KKK plans a rally at the statehouse. Churches were burned across the south.
But Christians are used to that. Jesus Christ confronted hate, an eye for an eye mentality, and preaching turn the other cheek and Love thy enemy. He was murdered at 33. However, those he touched spread his words long after he died, to this day. The Mother Emanuel Nine were murdered, but they live on in the words and deeds of their families
Howard holds S. Carolina Law Enforcement Division Private Detective License #30 and has investigated public officials from small-town Mayors to the United States President. He conducts investigations in South Africa, Nigeria, England, France, Canada, Mexico and had investigations featured by Geraldo Rivera, Bill O’Reilly, CNN, MSNBC and was published in The NY Times and Washington Post. He has a Political Science Degree from U. of South Carolina where he developed a Student Marshall Program as a buffer during riots between students, administrators, and law enforcement. Since college, he’s worked to bring about Interfaith, Racial, Tribal, Ethnic and Gender Equity. He teamed up with ADR’s Deborah Levine to develop ADR New Beginning 2020 in association with the U.N. World Interfaith Harmony Week, World Conference of Mayors, and Historic Black Townships and Settlements Alliance.
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