KENDI: Jacob Blake, Slain Black Fathers, and the Fear Black Children Carry
My dad has received death threats since I was 13 years old.
They never get less scary. I know what happens to activists who speak too loudly. I know what happened to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and Medgar Evers, none of whom made it to the age of 40. All three civil rights leaders were murdered.
I had, and still do have, every reason to belie…
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