A pastor near Detroit is asking for forgiveness after writing a crass email about mutilating a journalist’s female sex organ.
Pastor David Muns reacted to a since disproven meme attributing an outrageous quote to former NY Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong. That quote suggested a lottery be held to castrate White men.
“How about if we took all the little bitter Asian woman and had a lottery and cut their (explicit) like the Muslims do. Not a very classy position is it, neither is your trashy little bitter personality towards White men. Only in a world where journalism is controlled by brain dead Liberals do you people even have jobs,” Mun wrote.
Jeong shared the email in a recent tweet which has been liked 122,000 times.
“You would be surprised at how many people send me these kinds of messages from their work emails,” Jeong wrote on Twitter. “But using the domain for your online church is a new low, and yes, I am going post your email on the internet.”
You would be surprised at how many people send me these kinds of messages from their work emails. But using the domain for your online church is a new low, and yes, I am going post your email on the internet.
— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) September 15, 2020
Muns has since discovered the meme he was reacting to was false and has apologized through WDIV-TV after his email account was suspended.
“Ms. Jeong … I understand my email was off base, as I have been informed that it is not something you said. Ms. Jeong, when I read it and having prior knowledge to your position on the white race I just assumed it was an accurate post — bad mistake,” the pastor wrote. “For months we have been juggling peace within our country between races and (with) pastoring an inter-racial church, that (post) just threw me over the top. My attempt to reverse the roles in my email was wrong and out of frustration and anger as I viewed the meme as gas on a fire.
“Yes I am human and should never have assumed it was true or gone to such extremes to make a point. My attitude was wrong and I believe a bit fueled due to what I’ve read of yours in the past. Again, a bad mistake. I am able to successfully pastor a mixed church because of my strong passion and beliefs that we’re all just humans living in different kinds of bodies trying to live life. When I saw the post that was fired at me in a taunting fashion, it hit my deepest nerve. I hope you receive my sincerest apologies and I truly hope you have grown beyond your frustration of us white folks as we are all works in progress.
“I apologize to your followers that have had to go through this as I know they love and respect you, as their anger demonstrates. Though I am never going to be silent on injustices, especially those of the race issue, I have surely learned to slow it down and cool the head before ever moving forward again. I hope you receive this apology as it is sent out of the sincerest of hearts.”
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