[Peace-discuss] "...as we forgive those who trespass against us..."

[Karen Aram]

Carl
 
I don't think anyone is being too hard on those who are relatives of the victims who are forgiving. It's the premature pressure to forgive, as Gus suspects, and the corporate media using the "forgiveness" to allow white people to feel they have been given "absolution" from the crimes which we have allowed to perpetuate. 
 
There has been an orgy of "love and forgiveness" in the media over the massacre for which society and white culture is responsible. Yet, when the parents of the child killed by the bomber in Boston were forgiving and requesting that he not be executed, it was not promoted or acknowledged. Could it be because the "terrorist" in Boston was a Muslim, unlike this killer who is white? Is it because of fear that the people might rise up and demand more than just taking down the confederate flag? 
 
Keeping the people pacified is the goal here. Buddhists say, "let it go, anger is evil", but I say submerging and ignoring it is dangerous. 
 
As Malcolm X is reported as having said to Martin Luther King, something to the effect, without me you would not have been successful.  The elite's know this very well.
 
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 06:55:34 -0500
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] "...as we forgive those who trespass against us..."
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We should not be too swift to dismiss the forgiveness offered by relatives of those assassinated in Charleston. They were speaking from the almost unimaginable height of their tradition.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33206084
'Relatives of some of the nine churchgoers shot dead in South Carolina have addressed the suspected gunman in court and said they forgive him.
Dylann Roof, 21, appeared in court in Charleston to face nine murder charges.
He showed no emotion as relatives of the victims addressed him directly. 'I forgive you' said one victim's daughter, fighting back tears...
At a Charleston sports arena, thousands gathered on Friday evening to remember the victims with prayers and songs.
Mr Roof is accused of opening fire on a Bible study group, killing nine people...
Also on Friday, the Roof family released a statement through their lawyer.
"Words cannot express our shock, grief and disbelief as to what happened that night. We are devastated and saddened by what occurred," the family wrote. "We have all been touched by the moving words from the victims' families offering God's forgiveness and love in the face of such horrible suffering."
In court in Charleston on Friday afternoon, Mr Roof spoke to confirm his name, age and address and said he was unemployed.
Then relatives were invited by the judge to come forward and speak.
A woman who identified herself as the daughter of Ethel Lance said: 'You took something very precious from me. I will never talk to her ever again.
'I will never be able to hold her again, but I forgive you. And [may God] have mercy on your soul.'
Anthony Thompson, a relative of Myra Thompson, told Mr Roof to repent and to turn to Jesus Christ.
'I forgive you and my family forgives you,' he said…"
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