Were Family Members Of The Slain Too Quick To Forgive…

Many peo­ple angry over the actions of 21 year-old Dylan Storm Roof have stat­ed that fam­i­ly mem­bers ought not for­give him for his das­tard­ly actions.
Many peo­ple opine that as Black peo­ple we are too quick to for­give and return to our cor­ner, no mat­ter how dark those cor­ners may be.
I read one Article today from some­one who believe for­give­ness from fam­i­ly mem­bers to Roof is “Immoral”.
The writer quot­ed old Testament Scriptures which teach­es an “eye for an eye”.
At the risk of sound­ing cliché, I wrote that, were we to fol­low those laws we would end up with a World full of blind people.

We are not liv­ing under old Testament laws which dic­tates an eye for an eye. We don’t want a world full of blind people.
Jesus came and died so we do not have to live that way.
Now I do agree that their Forgiveness may have been pre­ma­ture accord­ing to Biblical teach­ings, but it is per­fect­ly okay for those left to grieve, to unbur­den them­selves of hatred and offer forgiveness.
Forgiveness how­ev­er is not an enti­tle­ment, it is some­thing earned and there are predicates.
The Bible teach­es that in order to receive for­give­ness the trans­gres­sor must .….…..
Recognize that he did wrong.
Repent.
Ask for forgiveness.
Yes Dylann Storm Roof has not done any of the above as far as we know, and so on the at basis their actions may have been premature.
The larg­er issues of Racism in America is a recur­ring dec­i­mal. It nev­er goes away, this learned behav­ior in a large cross-sec­tion of white Americans is per­va­sive and can­cer­ous. President Obama speak­ing on a pod-cast spoke about it being in the DNA of many white people.
I agree that this most despi­ca­ble of lie told to them­selves has actu­al­ly fil­tered into their genet­ic code to the point it is now a part of who they are.
For God’s sake we are liv­ing in the year 2015, how dumb and illit­er­ate can one be in assum­ing some sort of supe­ri­or­i­ty over oth­ers based on skin pig­men­ta­tion, or any oth­er nat­u­ral­ly defin­ing characteristics?

In his infi­nite wis­dom God cre­at­ed every specie with dif­fer­ent hues and oth­er defin­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics. It is all part of the beau­ti­ful cor­nu­copia of col­or and excellence.
Yet for some rea­son a sec­tion of one race have dis­tort­ed God’s cre­ation , lied about it and used the dis­tor­tion they cre­at­ed to cause untold pain and deaths prob­a­bly to the tune of bil­lions of peo­ple look­ing dif­fer­ent than they do.
It is time for decent peo­ple of all col­or, to shout down the Bigots. They should have no hid­ing place to grow their hatred .
As Black peo­ple we have tol­er­at­ed this Genocide on our peo­ple for far too long.
Over 50 years ago on a Sunday morn­ing 4 lit­tle girls died in a church base­ment in Alabama, their only sin was that they were black. A dement­ed, moron­ic demon decid­ed to snuff out their lives, yet the so-called-con­science of the nation was not shocked, yes I said it.
A few days ago anoth­er imbe­cile snuffed out the lives of nine peo­ple again in a church. They took him in showed him kind­ness and he turned on them like the rabid dog he is.
How many more Black lives are we will­ing to sur­ren­der on the Altar of get­ting along?
When will enough be enough?
The Nation’s con­science was not shocked fifty years ago because it is stu­pid to expect the descen­dants of rapists ‚Robbers and Genocidal mur­der­ers to feel empa­thy for doing what comes nat­ur­al to them.
Martin Luther King spoke about the “drug of grad­u­al­ism”, over fifty years after they took his life Black America is still drunk with the drug of grad­u­al­ism, believ­ing change has come , when in fact not much has changed .
It’s time for this igno­ble Blithe called Racism to be forced deep into the sub­ter­ranean cav­erns beneath our feet, those who believe in it should quake in their boots at the thought of the con­se­quence attached to even think­ing it.
Now is the moment this is the time.