Name:	lucky67 -	Reply
Subject:	wondering
Date:	6/23/2015 4:10:40 PM

I must state my deep concern  for & applaud the people of Charlston, a town I love to visit; their faith & resolve in a terrible time of tragedy is admirable; I wonder, had this happened in Chicago, or Baltimore or Ferguson, would there be a building still standing ?

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	wondering
Date:	6/23/2015 4:42:34 PM

Have to hand it to Charleston for the most civilized response. You already know the answer to your question.  No, there would have been riots and someone with his pants below his butt would have been screaming to "burn this MF down". 

Name:	waterph -	Reply
Subject:	wondering
Date:	6/23/2015 4:52:49 PM

Good response.

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	wondering
Date:	6/23/2015 6:00:08 PM (updated 6/23/2015 6:02:45 PM)

I don't think it can be assumed that if the same thing happened in Chicago etc that the reaction would have been violent rather than unifying.  The event in Charleston was NOT at all the same as the events in Baltimore, Furguson, NYC and, for that matter, North Charleston.  A cop shooting a black kid on the street may be seen by Middle class whites as similar to a white nut citizen killing 9 respected black citizen as they worshipped, but the black community likely has a much more nuanced reaction.  I recall a white person shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King's mother in church years ago.  The reaction among the black community of Atlanta was, thankfully, very different then than it was a few years later after the Rodney King verdict. A communitie's reaction to an event is always colored by the event itself or by how the event is perceived. If the perception, correctly or incorrectly, is of unjust treatment by authority the reaction is likely to be much less positive than if the event is seen as an action of a nutcase.  Also, remember the militant reaction to Furguson was to a considerable extent bi-racial.  The same is true in Charleston but with a very different outcome.

Name:	rude evin -	Reply
Subject:	wondering
Date:	6/23/2015 10:57:01 PM

Uhmmm Archy..............the plank in your eye might be showing..................the person who murdered Mrs. King in church in 1974 was a 21 year old black man by the name of Marcus W Chenault originally from Dayton Ohio.............another mental case......who died in 1995 in Riverdale Ga.

Name:	architect -	Reply
Subject:	You are correct Rude
Date:	6/24/2015 6:38:17 AM

My apology. My memory served me poorly...not a rare event as the years pile up behind me.  I slopped a bib-full in my specific comment regarding the murder of Mrs. King, but I stand by my belief that comparing the recent police shootings to the Charleston shootings is comparing apples and oranges as is comparing the community reactions to each.