Wednesday, August 12, 2015

And then he smiled - help for Dylann Roof

From the quaintly named Post and Courier, August 8, 2015, article on the Charleston County Jail Chaplain:

A mother of three and grandmother of eight, Smith, who is black, attempted to build a rapport with Roof by asking whether his parents had come to visit. Arms crossed, face scrunched, he replied no, she said. Well, what about a girlfriend, she asked.
“Then he looked up at me and he smiled,” she said. “You have to make him smile. ... I really feel that he’s going to get the help he needs because of the people who are saying, ‘I forgive him. I forgive him.’ The law’s going to do what it has to do, but we aren’t a people of an eye for an eye.”
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We aren't a people of an eye for an eye. Thank you for pointing that out, Chaplain. An eye for an eye is those other people, not us!
Article on Chaplain Ava Smith
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150808/PC16/150809548

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