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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?’
“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