Man Asks Entire Town for Forgiveness for Racism

[MProctorify]

This truly made me cry in hope. The world may be bad, but we are changing and can still change for the better. This is beautiful no matter what his reasons. MLK would be happy.

[2323bw]

GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN. JUDGMENT DAY IS HERE!

[pedi007]

@2323bw go forgot Judas, I think he can forget this man too. There is always time to change...

[barker00429]

It takes a strong person to ask for forgiveness, no matter how or by what means he/she choose to do this if it because they found God that is a good thing if they just see their ways and decides to change that it a good thing. Those where different times in each of our lives in which our parent taught us one could say that he was taught to hate, therefore not knowing the difference he acted out on what he knew.

[Cionaodh57]

@EmeraldIsleStar You are a moron! This man's faith led him to reconciliation and yet you disparage him for having faith. Because this man embraced the central tenets of his faith he was able to reach across that chasm in his soul and mind and embrace someone whom he was taught to hate and overcome that, and that's not good enough for you! The opiate you're imbibing is far more detrimental than the Christian religion you despise.

[AFCADaan9]

You know the kkk members should follow him he changed

[dulsen2011]

Ooh what a good man.. He changed... God bless him...

[josephortizgarcia]

Maybe...

[vidz022]

We send ourselves to school to learn the beauty of the world, to become educated, so we can discover the essence of it. And we start it by learning shapes, and colors. Colors represent so many things and some would use this to brand us. You are lucky enough to see the color of the world because some were born literally blind that wishes to see what the world looks like. Imagine that. Colors are taken for granted simply because we were not born blind. So lets use the color to love and appreciate.

[140662amarildo]

Not good to see you at the end, you beat the shitt out of my black ass fifty years ago. Fuck you! LMAO!

[guitardds]

@EmeraldIsleStar

Worked well for these two.

[NinetiesYouth]

we're supposed to hate Jews instead, they own and have destroyed American culture

[gnossticc]

@NinetiesYouth L0L You're an idiot. What about Hyam Solomon, Robert Oppenheimer, who helped you during WW2? You're an asswipe!

[24lakerland]

its too bad it took him a life time to apologize...

[wackoyackooriginal]

@24lakerland Beter late than never....

[LionHeart67940]

and yes im serious jackass are you serious ur channel is a dorky channel you dork you outkast you failure in life answer back asap i have qs and any of you crackers want some to you see the pg and yes call me sounding crazy slavery is a unforgivable historical fact that we were slaughtered the worst. u have a faggot christian spirit thats ur problem stop being so soft youll get beat up real fast just lookn out

[crlumberjack]

@LionHeart67940 shut the fuck up, "we"?! slave?!, you were never a slave. plus blacks weren't the only ones, romans enslaved french, germans, brits, egyptians, Spaniards enslaved blacks and native americans, the thing's that the slavery of blacks was more resent. I know there's still oppression, police brutality, but c'mon what's that ancestors bullshit, you're not them, period.

[outofslumber]

@LionHeart67940

You sound like a racist, hateful little man. The KKK is an example of extreme racism in whites. You are an example of a racist extremism in black people.

One word!

Hypocrite!!!

You know, like pointing to someone as being smelly, when you yourself are covered in shit!!!

[LionHeart67940]

the problem is you have a faggot spirit, pull some scripts to verify what you mean please jackass.. i have one actually 3in mind ima hit you with but me forgiving for the slavery of my ancestors... hit me with a script please

[MulattaPride]

( Still Continued ) Maybe their hated is something they have to go through for them to be enlightened , you hating them back isn't helping them to NOT HATE you're only making it worse and poisoning your spirit in the process . Not everyone is on the same spiritual level, everyone is here to teach and be taught and to hopefully learn .

[MulattaPride]

( Continued ) Hatred is a is a sickness of the spirit and the soul. If you hate a hateful person in turn for their hatred towards you then you are NO BETTER and you yourself are also stunting their spiritual growth and chance for true enlightenment. How do you know they wont change later in their life ?

[MulattaPride]

Wow . This made me cry . See people CAN change . If this man can change even the racist KKK members can change even if it's only one person at a time. Any person that has racial hatred in their hearts or any kind of hatred really, they can change. It would be the easiest thing in the word to hate them back and want to kill them for their hatred but in the end it takes a bigger person spiritually to do the complete opposite .

[TheKuKluxKlan2012]

@MulattaPride You honestly think this is real? This is a prime example of something called propaganda. I'd feel obliged seeing as how you cry for KKK members despite our depicted evilness, but my outlook on things hasn't changed nor will they ever change.

[LionHeart67940]

U WANT TO BE FORGIVEN LET US HANG U THA WAY U HUNG US. LET US KILL U THATS JUSTICE THATS JUSTICE.. U ARE SORRY PICK MY COTTON 400 YEARS FUCK THAT A STRONG BLACK MAN WILL NEVER FORGET SLAVERY BOTTOM LINE FORGIVENESS FOR SLAVERY NEVER UNFORGIVABLE ARE U STUPID U WILL ALWAYS BE A ENEMY AND BLACK WOMEN WOULD ALWAYS LOVE THEIR MASTER SO JUST WAIT UNTIL THE MOST HIGH COMES ISAIAH 14:21 AND THE BIBLE IS VERY REAL

[snowmchristv]

@LionHeart67940 Shut the fuck up, Your not from Israel..... Your from sub saharan Africa. Bantu expansion. Get over it

[MulattaPride]

@LionHeart67940 Wow are you serious ? Please don't say the bible is real and then say you're never going to forgive because that right there isn't Godly . You sound like a hypocrite, I feel sorry for you . Wowwww, just Wowww .

[vivascargill1]

this is something that gives one hope bless them both

[nottellingyou14]

I think this is a story of a man who looked back on his life and wasn't proud of his life. I'm proud of him now.

[Raznangriz]

when the white guy hugged the other guy,that was a powerfull moment...

[TheSpeedman25]

i dont think the man wil go to hell.

[jaysekhon8014]

Sound like Forrest Gump much ??

[mbrushoff]

One life to live, it is all about.

[josephortizgarcia]

Peace. Now you may enter the Kingdom of God.

[diyonisha]

We are all equal People

I love all men

All men have average dick sizes

whitemen dont have tiny dicks, some huge ones.

people stop the stereotype.

[sugarbabe831]

I feel so happy after watching this video. Love and forgiveness will always be stronger than hate.

[foketesz]

I cried like a baby

[litletortilaboy]

@foketesz i fucking cried to :).... happy tears ofc FTW

[babyfods18]

THIS MADE ME CRY :'( BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN RACIALLY BEATEN UP BEFORE SO I KNOW HOW IT FEELS THIS HAS MADE ME FORGIVE THAT PERSON, WHOEVER THEY ARE I FORGIVE YOU.

[LauraBeachnut]

This is amazing, and truly shows the power of forgiveness that humans are capable of. Maybe some people should utilize that gift more often. =)

The American Government should give the African Americans Reparations to show their forgiveness for slavery. We can all talk forgiveness and vote for black presidents and hire one manager for a restaurant that never hires other black people to very cheaply show forgiveness, but until reparations happen the United States will always show how they feel.

[surgedark]

@LauraBeachnut

Wow, fuck you. I was enjoying this video until I see one stupid white girl who suggests we pay blacks today, WHOM NEVER WENT THROUGH SLAVERY, reparations.

In that case, where are my reparations? I am Irish, our ethnicity was discriminated against. And I am also going to sue any restaurant that doesn't have any Irish people.

Really now, read over what you just said, do you realize how stupid you sound? Unless you were being sarcastic.

[LauraBeachnut]

@surgedark

1. did "irish slavery" happen in he U.S.

2. did "the holicost" happen in the U.S.

3. did the families NOT benefit from the reparations of the holicost victims through the survivors?

4. did the slaves or descendants of slaves have a chance to claim what was theirs?

Listen SugarDark, perhaps you should think before you speak and not speak in anger but through logic.

The survivors/decedents of the holicost in the U.S.(i.e. slavery) should be compensated just as much as the jewish

[surgedark]

@LauraBeachnut

Oh you idiot white girl, perhaps you conveniently forget that Black Chiefs sold rival black tribal members to European Merchants? Should they help pay for reparations? Nah, of course not. Because idiot white girls like yourself are trained to hate your race and to think we must give everything to minorities.

Okay, in that case, I want Zimbabwe to send me a huge check for killing White Farmers in the 1990s, is that acceptable? I want reparations for whites dying in Africa.

[LauraBeachnut]

@surgedark

YES surgedark, you should get reparations if you are the descendant or the survivor of whites dying in Africa!

(as long as the whites did not try to take the land away from those Africans to begin with such as apartheid),

[surgedark]

@LauraBeachnut

Awesome, so I should get reparations for something I NEVER WENT THROUGH or experienced and essentially just get a freepass for something my ancestors went through.

[LauraBeachnut]

@surgedark

YOU SHOULD...

however, if your ancestors went through it and

others benefit from it, then, it isn't anything close to a

"FREE" pass.

People suffered, people were went through torcher, the ancestors of these people suffer and most were robbed of their possessions that people now benefit from so, yes, if this has happened to you, you really do need reparations regardless if you went though it or not.

GO FOR IT !

[sguardian870]

@surgedark Well u can get that reparation when the white farmers return the stolen black land. INfact its justified cos the whites were trespassing do u see how alround stupid u are.

[baglemonkey]

self hateing white - go live in africa you loser

[Ohsonatural2010]

I'm greatful for a forgiving God....this former sinner may make it into heaven yet.

[Tetzukai]

How sweet of them.

[pablo42153]

Most Blacks have an Average IQ of 84. They nearly qualify for Mental Disability. Unable to learn, they still perform menial jobs, shoot each other and love Jesse Jackson because he has taught them to blame the White Man for their misery when they should blame God. God made most Blacks to Suffer Misery (especially in Africa where they like to chop off each other's body parts, shit in public and take voodoo medicine that's made from killing kids and harvesting their organs).

[mygoatisdead]

@pablo42153 Your president is a much better human being than you are.

[TheL4777]

Go to hell with your little pink dick dont hate because our dicks are bigger than yours and also There is a Black man Leading the USA! go choke on that.God put blk ppl through the struggle because in the end ppl like you will be in hell!!

[pablo42153]

yes you acknowledge that Black penis size is slightly larger on average than White man and significantly larger than Asian! However, the rest of the race comparison proves; Asian brain size is 6 cubic inches larger than average Black brain size. whites average 5" more brain size than Blacks; PA Vernon, 2000, MRI research. Blacks are significantly more aggressive and impulsive than other races, resulting in poor learning skills and highest arrest rates in europe and USA; Minn Multiphasic Test

[babyfods18]

@pablo42153 FUCK YOU!!!

[quaestiosophisma]

You listen to jack Johnson. You suck arse.

[JacRab25]

My IQ is 160, and I have a degree in Criminology and I am going for a Master's in Sociology. You care to re-think your comment? See me on Facebook at Rui Man Xian.

I want you to know that it is very incorrect and vile for you to generalize African-Americans as failures. Maybe it may seem easy for you to do when you see the crimes, but other races commit the same crimes, too.

I reject your idea that God made me to suffer, also. God made me an overcomer.

God bless you.

[Seanqw3]

@JacRab25 With so much intelligence you still believe in God? Ironic.

[billdrayton]

I'm reallysaddened that self-righteous bigots have commented about this moving encounter between two men who have found peace between them. You are so full of hatred for the white population, are you so free of prejudice? Do you have a right to judge your fellow human beings? There is only One who has a right to judge and that is God himself. ?If you are familiar with the gospel message, you know you are on thin ice if you indulge yourself in your judgmental statements!

[DeeSee25]

Damn amazing. Sends chill down my spine.

[bistrosidecar]

I decided to look down at the comments to see if anybody might have something nice to say. This is YouTube of course there are countless horrible people who use a nice story to spread their hate. You need to learn to forgive eachother for bad things that have happened in the past and America will never really be a 'great' country until that happens. Be nice, don't stereotype people, don't hate people and don't be so quick to judge other people. We're all the same, we're all human.

[Driedroz]

wow

[jackthenigger]

I'm sick of these sambos speaking for real black people. A real black man would kill that white piece of shit for his crimes against humanity instead of sitting down with him.

[Cypha1]

shut up...from a black man

[jackthenigger]

Cypha1

fuck you...The only thing black about you is that black wart on your sorry ass. Bitch ass negro, always saying sorry to the white fuckers, who kick your teeth in to this day. Sambos like you is why the black race are weak pussies who get no respect and wll never get respect. White people respect fighters and warriors not black sheep.

[Cypha1]

moron

[2handsclapping]

Talk the talk the talk the talk the talk the talk or come walk the walk over here in South Africa like a real African. Lets see if your knees are as strong as your tongue.

[ImTheGrey]

Dear Mr Wilson, the town has considered your apology. You are an ass. You waited fifty years to wake up and we would appreciate it if you slept off the rest of your days in some other town.

Thanks,

Reality.

[marxfan8]

Even though Mr. Wilson did utterly reprehensible things in his past, it is quite moving that he has acknowledged the error of his ways and is making amends. And while Mr. Lewis has every right to bear a grudge, I admire that he's willing to forgive. I'm not sure that I could, because it takes a lot of strength to forgive someone. This is a powerful story.

[myrmecia1977]

Agree with you - takes a lot of courage to ask for and to give forgiveness. There is always hope

[BOLSHEVIXTREME]

forgivenes is great

[jwilliams22407]

is this guy serious? he's HATED black people all his life. probably used the "N" word numerous times. he said he had a black babydoll with a noose around its neck and hung it from a tree.....then one miraculous day. "Oh, i LOVE black people now" ... please dont make me puke. the ONLY reason he's sorry is cuz his old ass is about 2 die. Hatred of his so called former ways, is 2 deep seeded and imbedded in older white racist southerners 2 ever be rennounced. i dont buy his crock apology 4 a min

[aribbaandalay]

whatever the reason, for Lewis to forgive him is still amazing. forgiveness is not human - it's divine.

[jwilliams22407]

perhaps. but i would not 4give him. if anything i would beat him down like he did the old black man back in the day. i do not believe in 4giving people who wrong u. somethings r un4givable. and what that old cracker did 2 that old black man is un4givable.

[aribbaandalay]

Each of us of have our own view on the matter. I guess at the end of the day, it all comes down to you whether or not if you want to forgive past transgressions of those who wronged you. He made his choice in forgiving, now he has to live with the decision.

[jwilliams22407]

true. but thats a hard pill 2 swallow 2 4give some who did something like what that bigot did.

[BOLSHEVIXTREME]

you're not very forgiving

[jwilliams22407]

no i am not. especially 2 people who wrong u 4 no reason whatsoever. i do not believe in turning the other cheek. nor do i believe in loving ur enemies. only a damnable fool would take time 2 love someone who blatantly hates them. and dont give me that "2 wrongs dont make a right" because if the first wrong hadnt been commited, we wouldnt have the problems that plauge this world. u cannot love people who hate u. its just doesnt work. they will walk all over u if u do.

[BOLSHEVIXTREME]

i feel sorry for you

Martin Luther King Jr would be very disappointed

[jwilliams22407]

on the contrary. King was killed because shortly b4 he was assasinated, he was gravitating towards Malcolm X's philosophy of by any means necesscary. King realized the loving ur enemies bullshit was getting him no where. King gave a powerful speech against the Vietnam war also, which didnt settle 2 well with the white powers that be either. thats why they killed him. and dont feel sorry 4 me, i feel sorry 4 u, because u would love ur enemies rather than kill them.

[msminnie89]

BINGO!!!!!!

[tifo316]

They only mentioned obama once and im sure that him seeing obama becoming president didnt change his mind just like that

[guitardds]

This has nothing to do with Obama. This is the story of grace and forgiveness both of which come from a much higher power than the President. THIS is what spiritulism is, THIS is the power of God. If you hate religion, at least recognize that THIS is the CORE, of it, not all the other garbage that man has polluted it with.

[tylersfs]

Wow. One of the best comments on YouTube. Keep on preachin'!!!

[wolverine005]

@guitardds Love or be punished. I don't have to be forced to love someone, I do it because i want to, not because I've been taught to.

[bojoben]

@guitardds This isnt religion, this is human nature and empathy.

[earthboundcruiser]

@guitardds I wouldn't say this is the power of god, this is the power of love, which happens to be a teaching of god, buddha and alah among others. It's when people use religion to glorify themselves or support intolerance that they lose sight of some of the basic teachings of most of the world's religions. Religion is a subject like any other and shouldn't require blind faith or gods who cannot be questioned.

[Druidfire07]

This is amazing, and truly shows the power of forgiveness that humans are capable of. Maybe some people should utilize that gift more often. =)

[dal4018]

@Druidfire07 This is only legit if a unknown black man or woman could get this type of attention

[gardengirl39]

You hate President Obama, huh? America is an "evil empire?" You missed the entire point of this story. What an idiot you are.

[803honda]

i got the point of the story and liked it at first, but then the media starting using the aforementioned story as propaganda for obama. it went from brotherly love to federal tyranny in the blink of an eye.

give em a lil time to continue buisness as usual and well see whose the idiot then. its probably gonna be worse than bush. you will be very disappointed.

[803honda]

I thought this story was touching at first but then it turned to obama. I myself am mixed and very proud of the way we all get along nowdays but i hate obama and the forced union and I think it is a huge scam how his administration and the extremely similar one before it uses the working poor to support huge corporations. soon everyone will realize that obama and bush arent that different after all. our only hope is secession and independence from this evil empire.!

[byrdman84]

*looks at your profile*

mixed with what? cant be black. Ive never seen a "mixed" person reppin the rebel flag.

[803honda]

yes. I am european, african, and Cherokee. apparently youve never been to federally occupied South Carolina. I know many pure black folks that fly the southern cross as well. There were tens of thousands of blacks, natives, Jewish, and even hispanics who faught for their homes and neighbors in the war against southern independence. The federally controled schools are hiding the truth and teaching you a pile of lies.

[kayisnotamused]

"The Southern Cross" oh you sad sad little person, please don't give a cute name to a symbol of hatred that blacks "pure" ,half or otherwise have had to endure. I agree with Byrdman84 I have never heard of ANY black person in the south happily displayin the stars and bars as a symbol of state pride! And please tell me the last time Jews fought for Southern Independence!! You're so obviously a non-minority just pretending to be one. And finally SC is part of the union, not federally occupied...

[803honda]

you speak blindly of things you know nothing about.

[kayisnotamused]

Please elaborate as to why you feel I am speaking blindly- "elaborate" means to go into further detail by the way, I know you southerners aren't keen on proper English. But it's not your fault "ya'll" are still reeling from reconstruction...

[803honda]

everything you think you believe is a lie!

[kayisnotamused]

Everything I think I believe is a lie? Back to my original question If you are (and I know u are not )"mixed" then explain why u are the only person of color I have ever heard of that displays the confederate flag with pride, you must agree with beating and lynching people for no good reason, if so then please realize that if you are "mixed" than you would fall prey to these hateful acts not even 50 years ago! and the flag you love so much represents generations of hatred in this country.

[803honda]

I dont think youre from around here. its quite obvious.