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Why Aren’t We Talking About 3 Historically Black Churches That Were Set On Fire By a White Terrorist?
As the world-renowned tourist attraction and historic monument, Notre-Dame de Paris was ablaze, the striking images took me back to 2007, when I visited the most trafficked city on the map as an early birthday present, and also to reunite with a childhood friend who had just started a temporary role with UNESCO.
Back then, Instagram was just a figment of someone’s imagination, and so images weren’t just randomly captured and posted to boost the number of “likes.” It was really about timing and relevance, inspired by the careful study of surroundings.
The pictures I took of that trip to Notre-Dame weren’t many, and I ended up losing them, but the memories are still intact. And as Instagram filled up with pictorials from users who needed everyone to know about their affiliation with the trend of the moment, it immediately occurred to me that news organizations were doing a splendid job covering the global hysteria centered around the crown jewel of the Western world.
But what about the sheer terror around the utter destruction of 3 historically Black churches located in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana?
Why did major news and cable networks provide minimal coverage that barely touched the surface of this…
