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…