Darius Pridgin was not feeling much like a pastor on Sunday morning.

I'm just a boy from Buffalo who is grieving with my brothers and sisters.

It is difficult to lead during times like this.

He's president of the Buffalo Common Council and senior pastor of the true Bethel Baptist Church.

He told NPR, he and his congregation members, news some of the 10 victims killed in Saturday's mass shooting at a supermarket.

10 lives in a black community ended in an attack that was motivated by racism according to city leaders.

It is very a very tight knit community in which probably two degrees of separation.

So it is a tragedy like we've never seen.

I know in my lifetime here in Buffalo.

Even if the grief had Pridgin feeling a bit less like a preacher than usual, he had this word.

A reaction to a document the shooter had allegedly written to explain his actions.

Anybody now who says there is not racism in America, I read how he looked at zip codes and looked for a place of a high concentration of as he put it black people.

And how he desired to shoot in his words to shoot black people.

What apparently motivated the accused gunman to do that is an idea that he allegedly wrote about in that document that we mentioned he shared online.

An idea that you can hear more and more on some conservative media outlets.

You've got to ask yourself as you watch the historic tragedy that is Joe Biden's immigration policy.

What's the point of this?

Nothing about it is an accident, obviously.

That's Tucker Carlson on his Fox News show nearly eight months ago.

He expounded on a hateful ideology known as replacement theory to change the racial mix of the country.

That's the reason to reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here and dramatically increased the proportion of Americans newly arrived from the third world.

This is a baseless claim.

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