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I remembered I had the email of the top editor at the nation’s leading running publication. He’d reached out a few months prior to invite me to sit on a panel at the Olympic Marathon Trials, an invitation that told me he knew who I was, and on some level understood the importance of having a Black woman on a panel about women’s running. So I opened my computer and wrote him an email. I said that I was writing out of fear and anger.
The outcry was loud and vocal, and people were rightly and justly horrified by Ahmaud’s murder. But I felt mostly anger. Why had it taken my post to get the larger running community fired up about the murder of a Black man? Where had they been? Don’t these same people read the New York Times?
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