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Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
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“frustration, long fed by cynicism, could be found in the Lowcountry as well, where the suppression of “Black rage” for the reassurance of white folks was as old as plantation culture. “Aren’t they wonderful?” Rev. Darby asked mockingly over lunch one day. “We have such good colored people. Don’t we have good colored people? We have to do something for them, make them some chicken, go hold hands on the bridge and sing ‘Kumbaya.”
― Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
― Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
“Similarly, in Charleston, his approach implicitly accepted segregation while focusing on the “equal” component of the separate-but-equal doctrine. Tailoring his message to white listeners, Washington assured his audience that Black Americans did not desire to share restaurant tables or railway cars (or bedrooms or marriages) with white people; they simply wanted equal accommodations in their separate spaces. “Let me say as emphatically as I am able, that judging by my observation and experience, nowhere in this country is the negro race seeking to obtrude itself upon the white race,” Washington said. “I think you will find that the more the negro is educated, the more he gets to understand himself and the world, the more he finds satisfaction in the company of his own people, the less he desires to force himself in any place that he is not wanted.”
― Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
― Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
“The families’ words may have sounded like a grant of absolution, or an earnest prayer for the soul of an unrepentant sinner. But they were more precisely heard as an iteration of a timeworn survival mechanism, a tactic that had helped African Americans withstand enslavement, forced migration, captivity, indentured servitude, segregation, discrimination, denial of citizenship, and the constant threat of racial and sexual violence with their souls still, somehow, intact. This, after all, had been the story of African people and their descendants in the South Carolina Lowcountry for nearly five hundred years.”
― Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
― Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
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