Bishop Harry Jackson on Charleston: Solution Is ‘Bringing More Jobs Back to the Hood’

‘We’re going to have to set down and bring business people to the table as well, and they’ve got to be part of the answer creating jobs and economic opportunity in our urban communities’

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LEMON: "He said -- you're raping our women and taking over our country and I'm here to shoot black people. That's ethnic cleansing. That is terrorism." 
JACKSON: "It is, don, I think you're absolutely right. I think all Americans should be outraged at this moment. We must also understand that it shows the problem does extent to the new generation. If a 21-year-old can have this kind of vitriol, you want to say it's time for all of us to work together. In our region, we're going to have to set down and bring business people to the table as well, and they've got to be part of the answer creating jobs and economic opportunity in our urban communities. This is an opportunity for us to eradicate racism, as we understand it on our watch, and if we don't take this moment, we're going to see a lot of the fabric of American community absolutely split apart. Don't you agree?" 
BERMAN: "You know, I spoke to a high school classmate of this shooter, we don't need to use the shooter's name more than I have to, but the schoolmate said he didn't appear to be violent, but yeah, he use racist language, and they didn't think anything of it." 
LEMON: "But that's always the case. It's a cliche. As a member of a faith community, we have been -- just a short time ago, people who just wanted to vent." 
JACKSON: "I they when I combine ought these things, especially in the south or the mid-atlantic area, we find there's an explosive cocktail. So the way I think we're going to see the anger slow down this summer, we need to be begin bringing more jobs back to the hood, and I believe that business owners have got to sid down with criminal justice folk, and we're going to have to strategize specifically community by community. I think, don, this problem is global in America, but it's going to have to be solved community by community, and we're going to have to, with the pinckney, he's involved rather in civic engagement, in representing his community and being a voice for the community. Thank you."

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