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[[link removed]] Jim WallisIt had to happen during COVID-19, and it did, all over again.

Nearly three months ago now, Ahmaud Arbery was followed, cornered, and killed by
two armed white men with shotguns in their pick-up truck — a former cop and his
son — while he was out jogging on a bright afternoon through a local
neighborhood two miles from his own home. He was 25 years old. The case is
currently on its third prosecutor, and Ahmaud’s killers were only arrested after
a video of the killing surfaced online and revealed Ahmaud’s death for what it
was — the lynching of a black man in 2020.

It made me painfully wonder again, as it always does, what do other white
people, and especially white Christians, really think about these things? Are
they quietly for it or against it? How much do they even personally care, and,
if they do care, will they speak out — especially to other white people? Will
white people ever decide that such monstrosities must never be allowed to happen
again? On a deeper level, even if most would quickly and sincerely say they are
against it, do white people still find these continual lethal killings of black
bodies and lives tolerable, or do they think it’s impossible to change?

Until enough white people find the brutalizing and killing of black people by
white people — including police — intolerable and unacceptable and necessary to
change, it will go on and on and on.

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