Julia Brady
Parenting Against Racism
“Black people disappear in America,” is how a July 7th article in Atlanta Magazine opens. The piece entitled, “Ahmaud Arbery will not be erased,” goes on to detail how his killing was also destined for oblivion, if not for the tenacity of his mother, refusing to settle for the explanation that her son was shot for his involvement with a burglary. Over the course of a few months more details of his killing by vigilantes emerged, eventually leading to three indictments that add