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A 20-Year-Old Black Kid Covered the Kenosha Uprisings. Here’s What He Learned.

‘If not me, then who? A 40-year-old White man?’

Jada Gomez
Momentum
Sep 22, 2020

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“For six days, I walked the desolate streets of an obviously divested city. I had never heard of Kenosha before it became the latest location for the futile debate over equity in America at the expense of Black life. But it looked like a city I had driven through a dozen times before. While the torched Department of Corrections building was a new sight, the abandoned Super K-Mart lot and empty foreclosed homes could cosplay as any other forgotten Midwestern city.” — Adam Mahoney

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Momentum is a blog that captures and reflects the moment we find ourselves in, one where rampant anti-Black racism is leading to violence, trauma, protest, reflection, sorrow, and more. Momentum doesn’t look away when the news cycle shifts.

Jada Gomez
Jada Gomez

Written by Jada Gomez

Senior Platform Editor at Medium. Girl with the long last name from the Empire State. NYU Alum. Runner. Puppy Mommy. Smiler.

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