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A Black Man Who’s Afraid of What He’d Do With a Gun
Author Kiese Laymon on history, race, and guns in America
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Oct 2, 2020
For Gay Mag, professor and author Kiese Laymon discusses the history of race and guns in America, with powerful personal anecdotes.
“I wonder every day if my grandmama, my mama, my friends will find invisible guns next to my big black bullet-riddled body,” he writes. “I wonder who I’m really protecting by never, ever buying or borrowing a gun.”
