"Last week, a video was leaked of a white man shooting and killing Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery in his neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia. While Arbery's death occurred in February, the alleged shooter and his father were only arrested last week following a massive public uproar following the release of the tape. Many Christians, of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, have condemned the Arbery's killing. But widespread condemnation from the church for these types of killings was not always the case.
by Ibram X. Kendi, Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University
"Americans don't see me, or Ahmaud Arbery, running down the road—they see their fear.
"If I were running under the falling moss, if two armed white men were coming after me in their pickup truck—and a third not far behind—then I would have felt the wrath of terror: racist terror.
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