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Atatiana Jefferson
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Killed while playing video games with her nephew
Dad dies 6 weeks later
Mom dies a few months later
Racism doesn’t kill once
Continue to say her name
Killed while playing video games with her nephew
Dad dies 6 weeks later
Mom dies a few months later
Racism doesn’t kill once
In Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote, “This need to always be on guard was an unmeasured expenditure of energy, the slow siphoning of the essence. It contributed to the fast breakdown of our bodies.
So I feared not just the violence of this world but the rules designed to protect you from it, the rules that would have you contort your body to address the block, and contort again to be taken seriously by colleagues, and contort agains as to not give the police a reason.
All my life I’d heard people tell their black boys and girls to be "twice as good", which is to say "accept half as much". The words would be spoken with a veneer of religious mobility,
as thought they evidenced some unspoken quality, some undetected courage, when in fact all they evidenced was the gun to our head and the hand in our pocket. This is how we lose our softness. This is how they steal our right to smile".
This is what racism does
This is what racism does
