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Remembering the Mother Emanuel Church Shooting Is More Important Than Ever
Time ^ | Jun 3, 2025 6:00 AM CT | Kevin Sack

Posted on 06/04/2025 1:13:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Ten years ago this month, a 21-year-old misfit who imagined himself a white supremacist zealot walked casually through the unlocked door of the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in the South. Without hesitation, he was invited into a basement fellowship hall to join 12 African American worshippers at their weekly Bible study.

After roughly 45 minutes, once the congregants had closed their eyes in benediction, the young man removed a .45 caliber Glock from his waist pack and began to methodically assassinate nine men and women, ranging in age from 26 to 87. Three were on the ministerial staff, including the pastor, who also was serving his fourth term in the state senate. Each was shot at least five times, with the oldest, church matriarch Susie Jackson, shredded by ten hollow-point bullets. The survivors reported that the shooter made his racist intentions explicit as he fired, and he eagerly confirmed his sickening purpose to investigators after being captured the next day.

As a journalist who had chronicled progress and regress in my native South across four decades, I was deeply affected by the murders on June 17, 2015, at Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, S.C.—Mother Emanuel, as it is known. It was a blunt force reminder of the persistence of racial violence despite our fitful progress on civil rights. The timing toward the end of Barack Obama’s second term seemed a pointed rebuke to any who still saw in his elections the heralding of a “post-racial” America.

Two days later, I was, like so many, simultaneously awed and befuddled by the scene at Dylann Roof’s televised bond hearing, when five victims’ family members rose one after the next to offer some measure of forgiveness to the remorseless killer. “I will never talk to her again, I will never be...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; dylannroof; southcarolina
Telling this history—the history of white supremacy and of Black suffering and resistance—matters now more than ever.

That one sentence is enough to manufacture a year's supply of Black Fatigue.

1 posted on 06/04/2025 1:13:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Ten years ago

Was year 2015. The year that 500 whites were murdered by blacks, compared to 229 blacks murdered by whites. I guess the leftists media doesn't want us to remember that part.

2 posted on 06/04/2025 1:47:04 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

the point is dont forget the white supremacist is the enemy


3 posted on 06/04/2025 2:08:13 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (t)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This was after almost two full terms of the purported racial savior, Obama, together with flag-hating Michele, having instead cynically race-baited us to within an inch of our previously relatively race-blind lives. Barack “could’ve been a contender” in terms of advancing race relations in this country. Instead, he relentlessly fomented racial discontent. his legacy is one of undiluted race arson and he has not even one argument to dispute that conclusion.


4 posted on 06/04/2025 3:28:43 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Once the national media arrived immediately on the scene, the local black community and several members of the Church told the media to quit spreading hate and to leave them alone. A proud moment in American History.


5 posted on 06/04/2025 4:13:38 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Note: LCMS Lutherns pack heat in church.


6 posted on 06/04/2025 5:50:33 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does TIME make remembrances ten years after every slaughter by muslims?


7 posted on 06/04/2025 5:50:38 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 62, Hadith 88: Mohammed consummated the marriage when she was 9 and he was 54)
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I remember that the MSM and blacks went apoplectic about the fact this killer had a CBF in one of his pictures and pushed to have it removed everywhere. Yet, when a man wearing a NYPD and NYFD shirt murdered over 50 in a gay club no one went after those symbols. Selective indignation....


8 posted on 06/04/2025 8:21:05 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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