Guest Op-Ed: The Seed of Hate
BY BOROUGH PRESIDENT ERIC L. ADAMS
How do we comprehend the evil that metastasizes into violence, tearing a gaping hole in our communities? Once again, in the wake of deadly terrorism committed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Brooklynites find themselves asking this question.
When we awoke on the morning of June 18 to learn nine African-Americans had been murdered inside an enduring symbol of black life in the American South, many of us felt the hatred of historic racial division in this nation rearing its head anew. That head took the form of a 21-year-old suspected perpetrator, leading people to ask, “How could someone so young harbor so much hate?”