{"id":51708,"date":"2015-09-21T03:05:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/charleston_church_hosts_pbs_town-hall_conversation_on_aftermath_of_emanuel_\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T03:05:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:05:33","slug":"charleston_church_hosts_pbs_town-hall_conversation_on_aftermath_of_emanuel_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51708","title":{"rendered":"Charleston church hosts PBS town-hall conversation on aftermath of Emanuel AME killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion, which will be condensed into an hourlong broadcast, touched on a wide range of issues, including racial disparities in education, health care, wealth, the judicial system and politics.<\/p>\n<p>Former North Carolina state Sen. Malcolm Graham, whose sister Cynthia Hurd was killed in the shooting, rebuffed what he described as generalizations of forgiveness made about the families of the victims that suggested that forgiveness was something they had all expressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attack was an attack on a race of people. It was an attack on humanity. &#8230; I have a forgiving spirit,\u201d\u009d Graham said, pausing for a beat before landing his point. \u201cI do not forgive.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150919\/PC16\/150919249\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion, which will be condensed into an hourlong broadcast, touched on a wide range of issues, including racial disparities in education, health care, wealth, the judicial system and politics. Former North Carolina state Sen. Malcolm Graham, whose sister Cynthia<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51708\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,54,209,149,168,133,183,184,120,108,188,34,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}