[waves lapping] I'm Gullah.
Born in exile.
We people have fled our home for much of the 20th century.
My father still insists that this place is still my home.
Behind the property water runs deep.
It's just like your inheritance.
Most black folks around here have been losing their properties to the white folks, and it's a shame because once it's gone, it's over.
You have no place else to go.
We sure didn't get our mule and 40 acres of land.
We didn't get any.
You know, we didn'’’t get any of that.
[gospel singing and clapping] The churches is just not bricks and mortars, weeds and roots.
But it's the people who make up the church.
Now, what happened at the church that's like in your face, that's direct violence.
On a daily, it's like, it's like the air we breathe, but it's there.
So when I talk about forgiveness, about the racist terrorists who entered Mother Emanuel Church at a Bible study where your mother and I just left 20 minutes earlier...
The fact of the matter is, I refuse to give that person, or any other person that kind of control over my life.
To have me held hostage by hatred.
