To survive in America as a Black man, make yourself small by Marlon James

[Mark Kohut]

Is that progress compared to being invisible?

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 6:09 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/25/to-survive-in-america-as-a-black-man-marlon-james
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> To survive in America as a Black man, make yourself small
> Marlon James <https://www.theguardian.com/profile/marlon-james>
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> After George Floyd was killed by the police in Minneapolis, I wrote about
> all the ways I have had to make myself small living here as a Black man.
> The question begs to be asked— are my reflections from last summer as true
> today as they were then? The answer is yes, for one reason: This essay was
> not a response to George Floyd’s murder but Philando Castile’s in 2017.
> That it should reappear four years later unchanged is answer enough.
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