I want to get a gun. I want to learn how to shoot a gun. I want to feel like I can fight back and fend off attacks from White men who are killing Black women and disappearing in the crowd.
Early this summer, Nia Wilson was knifed to death by a White male terrorist, who illegally gained access to the platform of a BART station, and greeted Wilson and her two older sisters with death. It happened as they got off their train, and tried to transfer to another one. He seriously wounded one sister, and brutally slashed the youngest one before callously leaving the scene of the crime with the bloody instrument in his hands.
Months later, and the narrative remains the same. Another Black woman, a few decades older, was emerging from a stopped train at the Flatbush station in Brooklyn, New York, when she encountered a White male terrorist who promptly plunged a knife into her chest.
Marie Washington, a fifty-seven-year-old mother of two, barely survived the terror attack that almost killed her, and is currently recovering at a nearby hospital after emergency surgery.
Every breath she takes greets her with great pain.
The White male terrorist in his thirties, who brutally attacked a Black woman, by also punching her in the mouth while allegedly yelling out racial slurs, is still on the run. He was able to hop on…
