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Jogging while Black
Racism is at the heart of mass incarceration in America
“Slavery was legal. The ‘black codes’ were legal. Sundown towns were legal. Sharecropping was legal. Jim Crow was legal. Racial covenants were legal. Mass incarceration is legal. And chasing a black man or boy with your gun because you suspect he’s a criminal is legal.” Charles M. Blow
I am sick and damn tired of black men getting gunned down in the streets like dogs for nothing more than going about the daily routine of their lives. What disgusts me even more about the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery is that once again the culprits in this murder attempt to criminalize the victim to justify their savagery. Why is this always the case when an innocent black person is murdered by someone from another race? Why does it seem like that even from the grave, black people are obligated to “prove” they were not complicit in their own death just to get justice?
