Oh-h-h, Darlin' -- this one hits TOO close to home!!! I was there the day CNN showed the hell up. I wrote about it here on Medium: https://scpheonix.medium.com/june-17-will-never-be-the-same-again-for-me-36794ee12362

From the link:

"I remember a CNN reporter sticking a microphone in my face, asking me what I thought about the violence that had been visited upon Mother Emanuel. I told him, 'White violence has long been visited upon the neighborhood surrounding the church via gentrification — these deaths are just the culmination of all the efforts to bleach the neighborhood, ridding it of all the Black folk whose lives were inextricably linked to it' (needless to say, that quote was never used)."

Never used, EXACTLY FOR ALL THE REASONS YOU WRITE ABOUT HERE!!!

Another painful, but great piece of writing, Darlin'...