Running has long been associated with Black liberty. It’s a false promise, says Pulitzer Prize winner Mitchell S. Jackson.
And what sport/pastime is more emblematic of America’s promise of liberty than jogging, than the prospect of moving free through these usurped lands? Running is both a literal and symbolic expression of America’s supposed ideals. And for that very reason, it’s a kind of fool’s gold for Black folks.
, triggerman Travis McMichael called Maud a “fucking nigger” while he lay dying. Know as well that when Glynn County’s finest sirened onto the crime scene, they proved simpatico. How else to describe that, while Maud’s bloody dead body lay just a few paces away,as if she was doing no more than inquiring about the weather: “I’m going to get you some stuff to clean up with alright, sir… That’s fine, that’s fine, just take a breath…You need to move around, do what you need to do, man.
And lest somebody claim a great distance between the paradigms of the confederacy and the ideals of the men who killed Maud, I point you to the fact that Travis McMichael drove a truck with a vanity plate displaying the old Georgia State flag, the one featuring a confederate flag as part of its design. Not to mention, he also decaled the toolbox in his truck bed with a Dixie sticker.
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