Friday, December 12, 2014

Ira Madison III
 
"The day of the grand jury announcement that absolved Darren Wilson of any wrongdoing for the killing of Mike Brown, I noticed that one of my friends had updated their profile picture on Facebook to an “I Support Darren Wilson” meme. Having effectively purged from my social media most of the people I considered no better than Confederate flag enthusiasts, I was horrified by this turn of events. Who had I missed? Who did I now need to delete as a friend?

"It was my sister.

"As a black man, it had never occurred to me that anyone in my family would stand in solidarity with the murderer of an unarmed black male." ...

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