Posted on 07/11/2016 3:16:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
Kalyn Chapman James, the first African American to hold the Miss Alabama title, said on Sunday that she doesn't want to "feel this way," but finds it hard to be sad for the Dallas police officers and "can't help but feeling like the shooter was a martyr."
"I don't want to feel this way" James states in the video. "I don't feel sad for the officers who lost their lives ... I know that's not really my heart. I value human life. And I want to feel sad for them but I can't help but feeling like the shooter was a martyr," she says in the video.
In response to AL.com about her Facebook post, James issued this message late Sunday night:
"My heart and my mind were conflicted because these are difficult and very emotional times for so many people. I went to church to address my feelings and deal with them from a perspective of forgiveness and love. Especially forgiving myself for feeling that way. I regret that any people lost their lives this week and I am saddened by all of the shootings that occurred. But, this is not about me. When reading about the killings of those black men, I was mortified by some of the comments about them. Many People were not conflicted at all about those deaths. Some were okay with this. These are raw wounds that are fresh and, while I apologize if I offended anyone, I cannot help the way I feel as I continue to process these events and deal with the flood of emotions that come from witnessing such atrocities - both against citizens and officers of the law. The fact that my opinion was considered newsworthy makes me feel like speaking up was exactly what I should do, because I can voice what so many people are feeling and dealing with and they should know they are not alone. I reiterate that I do not condone violence or killing at all. I offer my deepest condolences to all the families who lost their loved ones this week, including the officers in Dallas."
This wouldn’t happen without the grievance-pimps.
Looked again, and this was a past (well past) winner. She prolly wasn’t that bitter at the time.
just another Hair Hatted Hooligan...
Well of course not. In 1993 BJ Clinton was POTUS and America was heaven on earth!
She certainly is exhibiting the exact same mindset that the “Palestinians” do, calling murderers “martyrs”.
And how nice that she forgave herself “for feeling that way”. God would have a different perspective on that.
Delusion is their friend...for now. WE know that “what counts is a new creation” and that the wicked are excluded (barring salvation, of course).
When Kalyn Chapman James dances, she feels free. She stands among a room filled with women and stretches her long-sculpted arms on the wooden bar. She plants her feet into first position and asks the other women to do the same. The room is dimly lit, but seems brighter with two walls of mirrors and accents of hot pink paint. She’s teaching a ballet barre class.
“Dance is something that I was always naturally good at and I enjoyed,” said Chapman James, a 44-year-old mother of two tween-age daughters. “For me, dance was really a way to change my life.”
Chapman James was studying at Loyola University in New Orleans at age 19 when she turned to professional dancing. For a year, she danced for a Dick Tracy show in Orlando, until she suffered a knee injury. She went back to her home state of Alabama and attended the University of South Alabama, joining the dance team after a friend recommended doing beauty pageants for scholarship money.
“In that system, talent is worth 40 percent of your score,” Chapman James said. “I had to maintain my body and my dance ability and training in order to be a viable competitor.”
She won Miss Alabama in 1993.
When her pageant life ended, she studied tap, jazz, ballet and hip-hop at the Broadway Dance Theater in New York and the Millennium Dance Center in Los Angeles.
For a few years, she taught dance while working full time for HealthSouth in Birmingham. Nearly a decade after winning Miss Alabama, she had her first child, moved to South Beach for her then-fiancé’s new job, along with their 8-month old daughter, Phoenix, and got married in Key West.
“Like most moms, especially like most first-time moms, I was overwhelmed by that responsibility and learning so much about parenting that I didn’t have a lot of time to stay in shape,” Chapman James said.
Within a year, she discovered the 6th Street Dance Studio and signed up for a pomo funk class, a combination of funk and hip hop dance. She did so well the instructor asked her to take over.
Dance became her life again. She starred in an Old Navy commercial about Bermuda shorts, danced for Sabado Gigante, the Spanish-language variety show, and performed at music award shows, while raising her daughter and balancing her marriage.
Soon after, she began teaching dance classes for Arts for Learning, a non-profit organization that teaches the arts in under-served areas of Miami-Dade.
“I loved doing that because of my community involvement when I was Miss Alabama,” Chapman James said. Then, in 2006, she got pregnant with her second daughter, Zen, now 8, and joined Arts for Learning’s communications team.
For the last four years, she’s been teaching the ballet barre classes at IronFlower Fitness in Miami’s Upper East Side, in addition to her full-time job as the corporate sponsor coordinator at the Adrianne Arsht Center and her part-time gig hosting art loft, a PBS program showcasing talent in South Florida.
“Now what motivates me is making sure that my children see me being active, eating well, being active in my community and making fitness part of my lifestyle,” she said. “I always like them to see me active and I like to do those things with them so it becomes a part of the way we bond.”
Read more here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article20612988.html#storylink=cpy
All who are BORN are excluded UNTIL salvation. That was you too, buster... just be careful to watch that pride.
There is a very good reason white on black rape is almost non-existent.
Well a person can feel one way and believe something different. If that were not possible, no temptation could be resisted.
I think your title is wrong!
Here is what she said:
First Black Miss Alabama: “I Don’t Feel Sad for the Officers that Lost Their Lives...Shooter was a Martyr”
How do you feel about her real statement?
Yank her freaking title!
If she was white if would be yanked, so NOT taking it away is explicit racism.
a white Christian woman loses her title for saying Allah is not God- but this woman still has her title for implying that cops deserved to be murdered in cold blood?
Oh, absolutely. You are correct. I was stating harsh Scriptural fact, but it saddens me often that people want no part of the Lord. I realize constantly how much I need him and admit my wickedness likely exceeds most here. But like David in the Psalms I admit I’m a sinner and yet boldly side with God. Some pull it off better than I do, but yet I love Him.
In this bantering of sheer ideas on FR I’m much harsher than I am in person. You’ll have to take my word for it until we meet in the air!
“She is also not very good looking. How did she win that title?”
I can’t figure that out! I’m a White guy, but I love beautiful women of all races and colors. I’m not that great looking, but I’ve dated Black women that put her to shame!
“And Miss Alabama; What would you do to save the planet?”
“Well, first I’d make all the air and water clean again. Then I’d make sure that all the puppies and kittens in the world had homes. Then I’d exterminate the white race.”
If a white woman had said that about the white killer in that black church, the outrage would be off the charts.
She should be stripped of the title. She’s also not pretty at all, and it has nothing to do with her skin colour...unless that’s just a very bad picture of her.
At the rate things are going, Miss America is going to be a ‘must-miss’!
I was about to say that. Took the words right out of my mouth. I know there are far better looking southern belles than that thing.
First terrorist Miss America.
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