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Waltrina N. Middleton

Waltrina N. Middleton is executive director of the Community Renewal Society. She is committed to human rights advocacy and social justice activism.

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I don’t forgive the man who murdered my cousin DePayne at Mother Emanuel

To insist on a narrative of forgiveness is dehumanizing and violent. It goes against the very nature of lament.

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