This video begins with what happened in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 when a self-proclaimed white supremacist, Dylann Roof, entered a historical Black church and then mowed down nine Black Christians studying the Bible. Shockingly, the families of the slain forgave the killer within days of the killing, even telling him that they loved him. While that was well-received nationally, including Isabel Wilkerson, author of New York Times Bestseller, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” she also shared how she was troubled by the optics of the victimized Blacks forgiving an unrepentant white assailant. At first, I didn’t understand why she felt that way, until I learned about the long history behind how forgiveness played a key role in perceptualizing Black people as inferior to white people. The question then is why these Black Christians forgave this impenitent white killer? Was it a reactive vestige of the past when Black slaves were compelled to forgive those whites who wronged them? That’s what this video is about.