[Magdalen] Please Pray - Shooting in Charleston, SC church

[Judy Fleener]

This is tragic,
Judy

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:

> This latest horrific shooting, this one in Charleston, South Carolina,
> is beyond...I don't know what the word is. As a priest who has served
> an historically Black church in West Virginia as a licensed lay
> reader, deacon and priest, as a person with many Black friends, as
> someone who loves her country so much, but, of late, barely recognizes
> it--I am devastated. I have heard people who have diminished the
> killing of young Black men by saying that they were "thugs," who were
> "a...sking for it," etc.
> So tell me how the pastors, the state senator, the noted librarian,
> the church janitor, the beloved coach, etc....tell me how those people
> were asking for it. I am trying to imagine what horror must have
> seized them before they were killed. I am trying to imagine what it
> would have been like if the same thing had happened in Charles Town,
> West Virginia as clergy and vestry (lay governing body) at St.
> Philip's Episcopal Church sat in prayer before beginning their
> meeting. Would the killer have skipped me because I am White? Or would
> he have shot me because I was among followers of Jesus Christ whose
> skin was different from mine?
>
> How long, O Lord, how long?
>
> Georgia+
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan