Positivity: In Charleston, thousands join hands to show solidarity, mourn ‘Emanuel Nine’
From Charleston, where crowd estimates were in the 15,000-20,000 range:
June 21 at 11:40 PM
Charlestonians continued to seek healing late Sunday night, as musicians shook tambourines, choirs bellowed mournful tunes and South Carolina jazz legend George Kinney played “My Buddy” in honor of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney and the rest of the “Emanuel Nine,” who were fatally shot after Bible study in a church basement.
“Our seed is more powerful than a bullet,” the Rev. William Swinton Jr. told a crowd gathered for a benefit concert at Ebenezer AME church. “The funds will be used as a scholarship to help young people fight racism and all the evil things of society through education. They will look back and know that we did something more than cried.”
The Rev. Melanie Conner of the Charleston NAACP told the crowd that she knew many of those who were killed at Emanuel AME church during a racially motivated massacre in the fellowship hall Wednesday night.
“Their living and dying will not be in vain. What man meant for evil, God turned it around,” she said. …
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