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Why did it take two months for this story to become national news?
I know--#pandemic--but did we stop thinking #BlackLivesMatter?
That last is, of course, rhetorical.
What We Know About the Shooting Death of #AhmaudArbery nytimes.com/article/ahmaud…
Why did it take two months for this story to become national news?
I know--#pandemic--but did we stop thinking #BlackLivesMatter?
That last is, of course, rhetorical.
What We Know About the Shooting Death of #AhmaudArbery nytimes.com/article/ahmaud…
The #CoronavirusPandemic has in fact schooled us YET AGAIN that the lives of black & brown people (let's not forget--like our entire leadership has--that kids are still in cages) have diminished meaning and worth to our society. Black & brown people are dying disproportionately.
On Monday Nikole Hannah Jones won the Pulitzer for her astounding work on the #1619Project and a bazillion white people who never even heard of it lashed out. Concomittant with her prize was a posthumous one to #IdaBWells, a brilliant black journalist (1862-1931) long overdue.
I live in a poor black neighborhood. I know that everything comes to us last. EVERYTHING. Due to structural racism. The FACT is, #AhmaudArbery was killed for being black. Nikole Hannah Jones was assailed by the right for shining a light on the grim racist history of this country.
If #BlackLivesMatter & #BrownLivesMatter then white people--all of us with conscience--must speak up and out and not leave BIPOC--OUR AMERICAN FAMILY--to suffer & die with no recourse. White privilege is so real. It's on white people to not just reject racism, but fight it hard.
#AhmaudArbery was yet another victim of structural racism in America. The very foundation of which is in Nikole Hannah Jones' #1619Project. #AhmaudArbery deserves the justice in death that he never had in life. We must do everything in our power to see that happens. Everything.
