Ahmaud Arbery would have been 26 years old today. AdrienneNGreen writes
Photo: Family Photo It’s possible to drown in stories of collective grief right now. The searching ones about life as many knew it, now suspended between a longing for the before and the queasy uncertainty of what the after will bring.
Today, Ahmaud Arbery would have been 26 years old, had he not been killed while jogging through his neighborhood when two white men, 34-year-old Travis McMichael, and his father, 64-year-old Gregory McMichael, attacked him with a shotgun, and later claimed that they thought he was a “suspect” linked to recent neighborhood break-ins. A viral video of this murder snaked its way through social media this week, dredging up all the trauma of murders past and sparking necessary public outcry.
The racist vigilantism and indifference from the authorities calls to mind the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, which happened eight years ago this month. And Botham Jean, who was killed in his Dallas apartment in 2018. To name but two of the too-many-to-count. And if the constant barrage of death were not enough, the languid period between watching someone’s humanity snuffed out and waiting to see if anyone will be held accountable is its own tortured form of stasis.
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