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Marion County Museum & Amazing Grace Park, The Clementa Pinckney Memorial

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I went inland on Saturday to the first public event and commemoration of the amazing Grace park, at the Clementa Pinckney Memorial. It is to honor the Emanuel 9 those souls that were struck down in the church in Charleston South Carolina.

Amazing Grace Park is home to a museum, playground, and Pavillion dedicated to the memory of Reverend Senator Clementa Pinckney. Reverend Senator Pinckney spent his childhood summers in Marion county and has strong family ties to the area, making it the appropriate location to place his memorial.*

The park features accessible seating areas and facilities surrounded by walking trails edged in native flowers and foliage. The park is currently under construction with a target open date of mid-summer 2021. *From their website* With Corrective Edits

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  • Queen Quet to De Charleston Gullah/Geechee Family in Honor of My Friend Clementa Pinckney https://gullahgeecheenation.com/2015/06/18/queen-quet-to-de-charleston-gullahgeechee-family-in-honor-of-my-friend-clementa-pinckney/
  • Jennifer Pinckney gives her response as daughters Eliana (left) and Malana stand by her side during the unveiling of the late Sen. Clementa Pinckney’s portrait in the state Senate 
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  • Pan-African flag
    In 2001, Pinckney, along with senator Maggie Glover, proposed a bill for the Pan-African flag to be displayed at the South Carolina State House. The bill planned for the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee to hang up the flag.

“For us to be here today, a serious price was paid. Do not allow it to be in vain,” political commentator Armstrong Williams, the older brother of Sen. Williams, told the crowd. “Freedom comes from God, not from man. Make this man’s legacy mean something.”       

The park’s name, Amazing Grace, recalls the eulogy President Barack Obama delivered at Pinckney’s funeral in Charleston when he sang the first stanza of the beloved hymn penned in 1772 by an English slave-ship captain who later worked to end slavery.

Following the singing of “Amazing Grace” at the dedication, Bishop Michael Blue noted in his concluding prayer that Clementa means merciful. 

“Thank you for a park named Grace because of a man named mercy,” said Blue, of the Door of Hope Christian Church in Marion.  

  • https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/legislature/park-dedicated-to-slain-emanuel-ame-pastor-clementa-pinckney-focusing-on-family-and-unity/article_47adca3c-f3b9-11eb-928d-4b2d45c3f444.html