Across the Pond
Arbery Verdict Left Me Numb
Even with justice, there is still no relief
I still feel numb.
Yeah, I know I should feel a sense of relief that those three white supremacist vigilantes will die in prison for murdering Ahmaud Arbery. But I don’t cause they still living and he’s dead.
Maybe I am still stuck on how Kyle Rittenhouse got away with murdering two people because he didn’t like their “Black Lives Matter” politics…so it might take a while for the verdict to sink in.
Arbery was the 25-year-old Black man who was hunted while he was jogging in the coastal community of Satilla Shores, just outside of Brunswick. He unknowingly dared to be a Black man in a White space and the sanction for that was death.
The three men who murdered him, William Bryan, Travis McMichael, and his father Greg McMichael were not arrested after police arrived on the scene and found Arbery, covered in blood, lifeless in the street. No charges were brought until a video of his execution was leaked by one of the suspects, two months after the fact.
They almost got away with it.
I don’t want to breathe the same air as white people who actively hate us for no other reason than the darker pigment of our skin. I don’t want…
