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Cheryl Willis honors the lives lost in Charleston and describes why Black churches matter.
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00:00I'm so happy to be here for the fourth year in a row because nobody has church like a New Orleans
00:10church and I mean that I'm saying that from New York City I begged to come back here where the
00:16church people know how to shout so let me just say this I want to have a special moment for our
00:26beloved sisters and brothers who were lost in Charleston South Carolina we don't want to
00:33forget them today because it's true that black lives matter but it's also true that the black
00:43church matters maybe they didn't hear me over here I said the black church matters and when you attack
00:52a church in South Carolina you have attacked every church in this United States of America
00:59they've been attacking black churches for a long time but we prayed our way out of slavery we prayed
01:08down Jim Crow and if they think they're gonna be burning black churches we got a trick for them
01:14there's eight thousand of us in here today we got a trick for them
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