Forgiveness In The Black Community

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Forgiveness has made the black community, specifically the black church, complacent. Many individuals are satisfied with praying away the fears of oppression, and the terrors of being shot and killed, or a loved one being murder. Many blacks live day-to-day as if those that had been killed, abused, or attacked, did not pray and hope that it would not have been them either. In the instance of the mass murder at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, the survivors and families of those killed, forgave Dylann Roof for killing their loved-ones. It does truly take a strong person to forgive such injustices, but just our forgiveness does not change the heart of our enemy or their kin. I believe the black community has become so tied to the concept