White ‘Allies’ And The American Tradition Of Consuming Black Grief

The Establishment
The Establishment
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9 min readAug 16, 2016

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By Myles E. Johnson

flickr/Mark Dixon

The exhaustion is heavy. It turns my eyelashes into bricks and each tear that escapes my eye into a stream of lava rearranging my face. These cases of Black deaths are always sad and traumatic; its their frequency that makes them exhausting. Before your heart catches up to one bullet, there is another one following behind. Before…

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