Source: Julia Beverly / Radio One Digital
Atlanta is painted as a Black utopia with its affluent and successful Black establishments, cultural exporting significance in entertainment and celebrity, and the city’s black ass leadership with a mayor named Keisha.
Atlanta protestors gathered at the Georgia capital to demand justice for Floyd, Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, who was murdered in her bed in cold blood by Louisville police conducting a now-illegal no-knock warrant.
A news conference with Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms featured some of the city’s most visible residents with rappers T.I. and Killer Mike pleading for residents to not burn down their ‘Wakanda’ went viral.
Two weeks after Floyd’s death caused nationwide civil unrest not seen since Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Atlanta police turned what should’ve been a routine call of dealing with a man that was too drunk to operate his vehicle to drive home into another hashtag that we’ve added to the long yet still growing list of unarmed black people killed by police.
As calls for police reform and racial justice dominate the conversation, Atlanta’s two most politically prominent black women are on the Vice President shortlist to become the running mate for Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden.
