Nine New Revelations for the Black American Bird-Watcher

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In 2013, J. Drew Lanham wrote 9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher. In response to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery by two white men in February, he wrote nine more:

Hooded warblers are lucky. They can wear hoodies and no one asks questions or feels threatened. Vigilante ’Mericans don’t mobilize to make citizen’s arrest if they loiter in a strange shrub for too long.No one denies the eye-bending beauty of a painted bunting by saying “I don’t see color.”Revelation #4Double-crested cormorants are insulted at still being known as “nigger geese” by some.

J. Drew Lanham, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Alumni Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University where he studies the intersections of race, place, and conservation, with wild birds as the conduit for understanding. He is the Poet Laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina, and the author of

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