by Ibram X. Kendi, Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University
"Americans don't see me, or Ahmaud Arbery, running down the road—they see their fear.
"If I were running under the falling moss, if two armed white men were coming after me in their pickup truck—and a third not far behind—then I would have felt the wrath of terror: racist terror.
"And I know the feeling of racist terror. I know what it feels like when a white man—in my case a police officer—suspects me as an armed criminal and pursues me and clutches his gun when I'm just out running (errands). I was three years older than Arbery, who would have turned 26 on Friday. I lived, and Arbery died. Arbery could have lived, and I could have died."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/ahmaud-arbery/611539/