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Baldwin Speaks To Black Moral Exhaustion In Response to Unrelenting White Racism
The assaults just keep coming.
It seemingly is not enough that the nation recently experienced enormous convulsing in the wake of a trinity of racially tainted murders that included Ahmaud Aubrey, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
What comes after is an avalanche of hate. The hostility reveals how deeply whites are lost in the cocoon of racism. They are also racial episodes that evoke reconsideration of the capacity of Blacks to live as unfettered peers in a nation among other citizens.
Here are recent instances of inexorable white racism:
On the Fourth of July, 36-year Vauhxx Booker, a Black civil rights activist in Indiana, was attacked by a group of whites as he tried to discuss with them the toxicity of racism. In a cell phone video Booker is seen being held against a tree and surronded by a group of Whites. Some shouted racial epithets. Booker said one of the men mentioned getting a “noose” which Booker interpreted as a threat of lynching.
The case is under investigation by the FBI. Booker sits on a local Civil Rights Commission.
Three days earlier the Mayor of Kansas City, Quinton Lucas, was told to go “swing from a tree” by a White after he announced the city residents would…
