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| "Waiting For The World to Change" Bara Kenz |
What happened in a church in
Charleston, South Carolina on a Wednesday night is a lot of things, but one
thing it's not is "unthinkable." Somebody thought long and hard about
it. Somebody thought to load the weapon. Somebody thought to pick the church.
Somebody thought to sit, quietly, through some of Wednesday night bible study.
Somebody thought to stand up and open fire, killing nine people, including the
pastor. Somebody reportedly thought to leave one woman alive so she could tell
his story to the world. Somebody thought enough to flee. What happened in that
church was a lot of things, but unthinkable is not one of them.
What happened in a Charleston
church on a particular Wednesday night is a lot of things, but one thing it's
not is "unspeakable." We should speak of it often. We should speak of
it loudly. We should speak of it as terrorism, which is what it was. We should
speak of it as racial violence, which is what it was.
Composition By:
Kay Lynn Gabaldon
June 19, 2015
