Presidential long shot Marianne Williamson told the white people in the crowd at one of her talks to apologize to the black individuals in attendance last year.
Williamson was speaking on her “Love America Tour” at the Unity of Houston in July, 2018 when she began by having all of the white people stand up, Joy Sewing, who was in the crowd, of the Houston Chronicle wrote at the time.
The spiritual guru then asked all of the white people to hold the hands of black people near them and to repeat after her. Williamson began with “I apologize …”
“With nearly 200 black people in the audience on their feet, Williamson apologized for slavery, lynching, murders, rapes of black women, destruction of the black family, mass incarceration of black men, being called the N-word and systemic and institutionalized racism and more,” Sewing wrote of the experience. “I never thought I needed an apology from white people, but it felt like I was crying for my grandmother, my great-grandmother and all my people who endured and died because of hate in this country.”
Williamson’s apology comes two years after she published a ‘Prayer of Apology to African Americans,” and shared it on Twitter.
Presidential candidate @MarWilliamson once had white Americans apologize to Black Americans at a speaking event pic.twitter.com/x1C3JHAwtO
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“On behalf of myself, and on behalf of my country, to you and all African Americans, from the beginning of our nation’s history, in honor of your ancestors and for the sake of your children, please hear this from my heart …” it began. “I apologize, please forgive us.”
