On Charleston, South Carolina and Forgiveness

(We bring you this break from our regularly scheduled Comps Reading Project to flush these thoughts out of my system).

Here there was no ambiguity: no conflicting witness accounts, no hackneyed defenses of police over-reaction, no possibility for victim blaming--simply, a deeply racist young man, sporting the flags of apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia and the Confederacy, entered a historically black church famous for opposing slavery and Jim Crow, sat quietly in their Bible study for an hou...