Charleston church shooting survivor speaks at Health Empowerment Tour in Rock Hill

ROCK HILL, S.C. — A survivor of the Charleston church shooting shared a message of forgiveness and justice at the Health Empowerment Tour on Saturday in Rock Hill.

Felicia Sanders spoke about seeing her son and friends senselessly murdered in 2015.

She talked about leaving your comfort zone and explained her decision to change churches.

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“If I had stayed at Emmanuel and (been) mad at everyone, my nephews, who are 13 years old, they’d be brought to hate white folks, but now I go to a church with white folks,” Sanders said. “They see everybody is not mean. Everybody is not hateful.”

The theme of this year’s Health Empowerment Tour was “Mind, Body, Spirit: Looking to the future, embracing the past."

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