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Maybe I’ve Become Too Black Radicalized
How the Presence of Black CRT History Distorts White News Readers Like Me
I do think I might be the one reading too much into recent events now. Studying ‘too much’ black American History, then learning from a genetic test that my father was not part “Spanish and French” from some mysterious “Carmelita” ancestor in Louisiana but actually three black American slave ancestors with no Spanish or French aristocrat connections, has messed with my brain, clearly. I’m probably see “black ghosts” in all the violence and crimes, whispering to me dark secrets in every news piece, inserting information that isn’t there.
Take the recent spat of shootings mentioned in this article just posted. Besides young Ralph in Kansas City going to pick up his siblings, I read about the young lady in rural New York State (wrong driveway), the two cheerleaders shot at in parking lot just north of Houston where I’m at (wrong car), it appears other types of wrong doorbell shooting like this are common. They just don’t get press.
[Because they are black people in the South.] See, that one of those voice, those ghosts.
How I read the adapted NY Times story, with the interruptions my brain keeps subliminally getting shown in square brackets:
