This is a very good start. But, can we call it a memorial against domestic terrorism?
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I don't think there will be any difficulty raising the funds to build this memorial. The dignity, grace, and Godliness Emanuel AME showed in the aftermath of a treacherous atrocity spoke volumes, to me at least, about the goodness of that church. Post a link to donate funds to, and I think their financial needs will be met.
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Where it mentions the foundation in the article, there was a link to the foundation. On the foundation's website, there are multiple options for giving - online, text, check.
https://emanuelnine.org/
Yes, hopefully their financial needs will be met in rapid order. It is a beautiful memorial and a church that seems beautiful in spirit.
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Now - if we can get Bob Dylan and Joan Baez back to sing again; we can start all over working for freedom, justice, truth, civil rights, no guns, less defense spending, intelligent government...you know, all the stuff that never became reality in America.
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I would suggest that this memorial be placed in the former location of any confederate traitors statue.
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An anti-memorial--for the weapon of choice, a gun--should also be erected. Lest we forget how America got to this horrifying stage in its cultural evolution in the first place.
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Monuments are all well and good but what about reparations for the 250 years of free labor that enslaved Black Americans were forced to give to this country? America must pay its debts.
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Slavery lasted in the United States from 1789 when the Constitution was signed until the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865, a period of 76 years. However, it lasted for a much shorter period of time in most states.
In 1860, agricultural wages averaged about $13.5 a month or about $162 a year. So a farm worker who was born July 4, 1777, when the Declaration of Independence was signed, and worked every day of his life from age 12 until the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865 would earn about $11,178. If he had saved 15 percent of his income—which would have been next to impossible—he would have been able to pass on about $1,117 to his heirs. Today, this inheritance would be split among hundreds of descendants. Each one would get a few pennies. In reality, farm laborers passed on little or nothing to their heirs.
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I realize that many would argue that the principle of separation of Church and State would prohibit a role for the state government of South Carolina in covering any of the costs associated with building this memorial, but, still, given its history, it would be a welcome gesture.
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A good effort, but this could overwhelm the space. Also, the simplicity of chairs and tables in church basements could be represented.
It's beautiful. Build it, and they will come. I certainly will.
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I had hoped that I would not see the killer’s name in this article. I know that this is a newspaper of record but couldn’t you have just linked this piece to the killer’s bio? That person is not a part of this memorial.
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Hope this beautiful monument becomes a reality.
Am contributing today.
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The design is warm and welcoming, exactly as it should be.
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"Reflecting the city’s complex racial history, the (new) memorial commemorating one of the country’s deadliest hate crimes will sit a block away from Marion Square, with its towering statue of John C. Calhoun, the antebellum vice president from South Carolina who was one of slavery’s most ardent defenders."
There's nothing 'complex' about the Confederacy and Charleston's racial history.
It was predicated on white supremacy, inhumanity and the deplorable notion that slavery was a defensible point of view instead of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy it was.
That statue of John Calhoun should be moved to a Confederate museum where white supremacists can visit it and pay their racist respects out of public view.
Tear down that wretched, racist statue.
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