This Black History Month, I’m Stuck Thinking About the Present
Today is the first day of Black History Month. It is also the day Tyre Nichols will be laid to rest. On Friday, people across the country watched and shared footage of police officers brutally attacking Nichols and leaving him without aid. The country witnessed as Nichols called out for his mom and asked the officers: “What did I do?”
Today is the first day of Black History Month, and I’m stuck thinking about the Black present and future.
But it’s not just Nichols who’s heavy on my mind and heart this week. Two days ago, Atatiana Jefferson’s sister, Amber Carr, died of congestive heart failure at age 33. Amber’s son Zion, eight years old at the time, was with Atatiana when a police officer killed her in her own home.