What I have found as I covered the protest for Rayshard Brooks on June 13, that it’s pretty easy to see why not only “Black Lives Matter” but “Black Journalists Matter” and “Black Media Matters.”
As 2020 combines the revolutionary protests of 1968, the worst economic downturn in American history (1932), coupled with a president who cosplays George Wallace, no group of people is better positioned for a turbulent time than Black Journalists and wholly-owned Black media outlets.
But I felt an even greater sense of responsibility: How could I, a Black man, in a position of editorial leadership with a Black newspaper historically situated in this neighborhood and rooted in a tradition of documenting civil disobedience not document this seminal moment in Atlanta’s history?
The last thing I was going to let happen was to let two white boys and two Black outsiders walk into my proverbial backyard and tell MY STORY FOR ME.
They believe America is being redefined by liberal, left-wing, socialist minority men and the white people — most notably white men — that believe their privilege is a sin, as Ben Shapiro said in a 2018 clip for Prager University, an online platform for conservative educational videos.
