Clementa Pinckney Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

[KamaAina]

http://heavy.com/news/2015/06/clementa-pinckney-dead-charleston-church-shooting-victim-black-church-pastor-ame-shot-injury/

Reverend Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator and the pastor of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was fatally shot in a mass shooting at the church Wednesday night that left nine dead, NBC News reports....

Pinckney’s sister, whose name hasn’t been released, was also shot at the church, according to ABC News 4. It was not immediately known if she was killed....

Pinckney has been in South Carolina’s legislature since 1996, when he was elected as a state representative at the age of 23, according to his biography on the church’s website. He was the youngest African American ever elected to the legislature....

Pinckney and other South Carolina pastors recently held rallies after the shooting of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, by a white North Charleston police officer, Michael Slager. The shooting stirred up racial tensions in the Charleston region.

It seems that our very own blm knew his sister, who was in fact killed.

[blm]

1. NC Senator Malcolm Graham lost his sister. We haven't heard of Sen. Pinckney's sister, yet.

Thank you for speaking to this, KamaAina. I hope DU works with us in Carolinas to force that flag down.


It's former Sen. Graham - he was gerrymandered out of his seat by racist NCGOP redistricting.

I did meet Sen. Pinckney, though, when Kerry was in SC.

What an incredible loss.

[KamaAina]

2. Oh, that's right. It was Sen. Graham's sister that you knew.

[frazzled]

3. Here's another fact that may be of interest

Being married to a Charlestonian and having spent a fair amount of time there, I was immediately interested in Rev. Pinckney's surname--because it is a very famous one in Charleston (e.g., Castle Pickney). Pinckneys were Revolutionary War "heroes," governors, senators, and of course landowners since the 18th century. With, of course, a long history of slave ownership.

The fact that the pastor's name is clearly the adopted name of the owner of one of his progenitors would seem to confer upon him the long, sad history of slavery in South Carolina.