Nobody would blame Chris Singleton if he lashed out angrily at Dylann Storm Roof, the admitted shooter in Wednesday’s church attack that left nine people dead in Charleston, S.C. One of those nine was reportedly Singleton’s mother, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton.
We’re not sure what we’d do in Singleton’s position, but we can only hope we’d act with as much forgiveness and grace as the 19-year-old. We can also only hope we’d be supported in a way his Charleston Southern University baseball teammates have.
“My mom was a God-fearing woman, and she loved everybody with all her heart,” Singleton said Thursday in a video posted on Twitter. “We’ve come together as a community to try to get past these things. Tragedy has happened, but life’s going to go on and things will get better.”
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After Singleton spoke, his CSU teammates encircled him and embraced him by placing their hands on his head and back.
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Whatever sort of “war” Roof told friends he was trying to start, Singleton, through his showing of strength and compassion, proves Roof lost.
