The Emanuel 9, Allen Report and the importance of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Black Liberation
It was a year ago on June 17th, 2015 when a lone gunman entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina and murdered nine, including the church's senior pastor state senator Clementa C. Pickney. 21 year-old Dylan Roof was the gunman who stated that he had hoped to spark a race war. Roof knew what he was doing when he targeted the oldest African Methodist church in the South, which has always been a bastion of resistance for African Americans starting with Denmark Vesey who it is said, was responsible for planning a thwarted rebellion against whites in order to gain freedom for he and his people. The plan would have included a trip to the Republic of Haiti, if all had gone well. According to Wiki Vesey and five slaves were among the first group of men rapidly judged guilty by the secret proceedings of a city-appointed Court and condemned to death; they were executed by hanging on July 2, 1822. Vesey was about age 55. In later p...