Mark W.rites

altonsterling

Scene of a protest with a crowd of people (mostly Black) lying down on the ground. In the front, one Black man in a t-shirt and fedora is kneeling and looking at the ground with his hands raised as if being confronted by police.

My entire being has been rife with emotion today. From the moment I witnessed the institutional murder of Alton Sterling, my lens of the day was dramatically altered. I waded through an endless stream of tweets and posts about bullshit that seems meaningless in the wake of yet another murder which is, really, a slow leak in the sea of American genocide.

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