'Every city’s new scream of pain sweeps my mind back to May 17, 1980—the day my childhood ended,' writes TananariveDue. 'On that day the police officers charged with killing Arthur McDuffie were acquitted'
reporterwho got a tip and investigated his death, exposing the conspiracy to hide his murder. After the exposé, several officers were tried for manslaughter—which, even as a child, didn’t seem like a powerful enough charge to me. Even so, an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted them. I felt stunned and shattered as I watched the news crawl silently across my television screen on a sleepy Saturday afternoon.
Maybe that sounds like heaven, but if I lived there right now, I’d call this society hell. You know why? MAYBE IT IS. Now a new generation is discovering just how devalued their lives are in U.S. society, risking a pandemic and possible police violence to protest in the name of a better society. In their cities they are facing their own baptisms by fire.
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