To be Black in the U.S. is to hope in the face of a continuum of social, political, economic and psychological "death sentences."As Black people, many of us have learned to hope against hope.It is hard because it is such a fragile thing - to hope that we might be shown grace.Despite what I have come to know about the anti-Black hydraulics of the criminal legal system, and the ontological criminalization and profoundly problematic ungrievability of Black male bodies, I had hoped that perhaps, just perhaps, 37-year-old Kevin Johnson - the Black man scheduled to be executed this week in Missouri - would be allowed to live.
#people #back #years #neighborhood #black-people #neighborhoods #demonstration #young-children #younger-brother #concussions
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