It’s really easy to hate someone who has committed an act as heinous as mass murder but it’s harder and much more rewarding to forgive the man and loathe the sin. Marcus Stanley sent a message to Dylann Roof, the perpetrator of the recent shooting in Charleston that left nine dead and a country in mourning, on social media. It was the only comment on his picture, but it is sure to move you to tears.
From IJReview:
The world woke up Thursday full of hatred toward Dylann Roof, the young man suspected of killing nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina church, but Marcus Stanley woke up full of love.
Stanley, a professional gospel musician, heard the news of the shootings the morning after and prayed, asking what he could do to help. “Posting something on my own page was not enough,” Stanley told IJReview, “It was time for me to go directly to the source.”
Marcus took to social media to see if he could contact Dylann, who was at the time still the subject of an enormous manhunt.
If he had already been captured, I would not have sent the message. But most people have their phones on them no matter what’s going on. Information moves through social media faster than anything else. I was hoping if he had his phone on him, that he would read this message.
That message turned into a viral phenomenon, having been seen by five million people on IJReview alone.