Obama welcomes nation's 'thoughtful introspection' after Charleston massacre

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- President Barack Obama on Friday welcomed the "thoughtful introspection" of the country in the wake of the killing of nine people in an historic black church in Charleston, S.C. Obama said the attacker had tried to spark fear, but instead the city of Charleston, the state of South Carolina and the U.S. as a whole "would respond, not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life," Obama said at the funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, who was killed in the attack.

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