'America is opening back up like my dad isn’t dead, like people aren’t suffering and like COVID-19 isn't killing Black people at alarmingly high rates,' writes Keith Gambrell. freep usatodayopinion
When I heard about Breonna Taylor’s death and then watched the videos of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery dying, I wondered if they felt what my father felt before he died in April from COVID-19.
To be clear, this isn’t about the sensationalism or fickleness of the media. That horse is dead and rotten. It’s about the repeating of this pattern that we’re in the middle of right now. And not letting it play out yet again.I once wondered what it felt like for a Black person in the 1950s to have to step off the sidewalk when a white person walked by, and look down instead of looking them in the eye.
"Against this backdrop, that same community is preyed upon through police brutality and other manifestations of racism. That is the picture that the last few months have painted for us. In a single snapshot of a confined period of time, you see the problems that have pervaded communities of color here for centuries.”It’s time for the next civil rights movement, before another family ends up like Ms. Taylor’s, Mr. Arbery’s, Mr. Floyd’s, or mine.
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