Years ago it was said that driving while Black was dangerous, but the cold blooded murder of Ahamaud Arbery by two white men in Georgia allows us to tweak that to jogging while Black is deadly. And yet no arrests have been made. The murders, no assassins, are still free, going about their lives as if nothing happened. Gloating, I’m sure, over their “trophy killing” in conversations with their close friends.
Can you imagine a similar response by law enforcement if two Black men murdered a innocent young white man jogging in a neighborhood on a bright sunny day? Once again, racism proves to be deadly, especially for young Black men.
Written by
Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
