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I wasn't going to post or comment this weekend, but on this stormy Saturday, I just listened to some of the most powerful words from the families of the Charleston victims. They said:
"I will never be able to hold her again, but I forgive you," a daughter of Ethel Lance said. "And have mercy on your soul. You hurt me. You hurt a lot of people but God forgives you, and I forgive you."
Felicia Sanders -- mother of victim Tywanza Sanders and a survivor of the church shooting herself -- said that "every fiber in my body hurts, and I will never be the same. As we said in the Bible study, we enjoyed you," she said of Roof. "But may God have mercy on you."
Roof stood with a smug, unrepetent, blank expression.
The CNN report I watched stated that police claim that he almost didn't go through with because of their kindess to him, but he felt it was his duty to "start a race war."
Then, I watched one of the most inspiring things I've seen in a long time, white and black, locked in arms and singing "we shall overcome" together, at the memoriam for the victims.
It was then that it dawned on me: If his goal was to start a race war - he failed miserably:)
Because there are no riots nor even protests. Just grief, tears, hugs between black and white and forgiveness.
So though racism and hate may have won the battle, they ultimately lost the war.
I am SO sorry these people had to die, but they didn't die for nothing - they are heroes, whose deaths somehow brought us at least momentary unity :)
And just 1 month ago, we viewed comments on here about "blacks being more aggressive". Not long before that, Christians like me who didn't agree with other Christians "shunning" rather than showing grace - we were called "Christian haters" and "christians in name only".
Both were clearly desparate regurgitations of what their politicians and their media have brainwashed them with, over power and money.
But the beautiful African-American Christian people of Charleston have proven you wrong on both counts, those of you spewing your regurgitated political nonsense - because THIS is how real African Americans AND real Christians behave :)
You may have hidden under the American flag and "Mock Christianity" for a while, but in the end, truth was revealed. So you lose, racism and hatred. YOU. LOSE:)
Like Joseph said in Gen 50:20: "But as for you, ye thought to do evil to me, but God turned it into good"
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/19/us/charleston-church-shooting-main/
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