Opinion | Dianna Anderson: Ahmaud Arbery's shooting video highlights the historic brutality and power of lynching imagery - NBCNewsTHINK
, a white neighbor called the police, and former police officer Greg McMichael and his son Travis hopped into a truck and — armed with shotguns — confrontation Arbery on the road. With another neighbor recording, the confrontation resulted in Arbery being shot three times.
The release of the video, two months after the fact, has raised a number of questions about the propagation of black death as a political tool, and rightfully so. Arbery’s killing fits the definition of a lynching — the McMichaels thought Arbery was a burglar, but there is no evidence to suggest this is true.
The dissemination of the video was met with outrage by the black community, which has been forced once again to experience how fragile their ability to exist in a white dominated world is. But such videos have also goaded whites into action, because they make visible the typically unseen horror that passes under our radar in so many every day.
The NAACP’s publication and use of the photos complicates and subverts the narrative of lynching photos as tools of white supremacy. However, a situation in which black people regain power by controlling the narrative is not the same as videos in an effort to, allegedly, clear the air. Instead of a call to action, these videos of lynchings help further the white supremacist agenda of terror.
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