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The Unbearable Sorrow of a Black Mother’s Loss is America’s Curse
The nation remains transfixed on the tragedy of the Ahmaud Arbery trial through televised testimonies that reveal the graphic nature of the bullet wounds that resulted in the death of a 25-year-old Black man. Arbery was out jogging in a Georgia suburb on February 23rd, 2020, when he was violently accosted by three white males with hate in their eyes wielding a pistol and shotgun.
Minutes later, Arbery was on the ground bleeding into the streets that were rigged against him as his gleeful assailants mocked their Black victim’s final moments on earth.
The worst part is how this real-life horror story has played out over and over again without end. It’s the exhausting playbook that depicts the predictable betrayals that afflict Black and Brown communities and the assaulted family members who have to bear the brunt of systemic injustice in the name of loved ones who died in vain.
And based on the devastating victory of Kyle Rittenhouse, the white male acquitted of all charges stemming from his deadly stint as a roving vigilante armed with a high-power rifle that he brandished about during the protests in Kenosha, WI over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Rittenhouse shot and killed two protesters and critically injured another in what he describes as…
