This Methodist pastor burned himself to death in the parking lot of a Grand Saline, Texas, shopping center last month. In his suicide letter he wrote, "I will soon be 80 years old, and my heart is broken over this. America (and Grand Saline prominently) have never really repented for the atrocities of slavery and its aftermath."
A local paper talked to Larry Compton, the chief overseer I mean chief of police in Grand Saline: "Compton said the preacher’s death disturbed him. He added that while Grand Saline might once have been racially divided, today it is a community of acceptance. 'It might have been that way in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s like a lot of places, but today we are a community of different ethnicities and racial makeups,' he said." [1]
