Daily News | The Ala. boat brawl video, Black self-defense, and America’s long legacy of racial violence
Dutifully, yet mournfully, we join our people in commemorating such efforts. We do so despite the fact that justice often arrives decades or even centuries after the original offense — if justice arrives at all.
We simply want to be able to exercise the same right that is freely extended to every other group — the right of self-defense.
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