Michael,

Since I gave you only the barest facts of the story, I will regard your question as hypothetical. 

Problem resolution requires that we be open to others, vulnerable to being hurt and willing to offer trust so we can get to know the other person or group and build a relationship instead of tearing-down. All the racial rhetoric and false claims being spread by people on social media and by rabble-rousing leaders are making finding resolution to problems more difficult. So seeing an SDA pastor repeating those inflammatory and accusatory claims and others echoing them is distressing, both because it creates division and because it is distracting a large segment of the church in North America away from ministering the redeeming and transforming love of God.