As Buffalo, New York, marks one year since a racist massacre at a supermarket, many young Black people in the city are grappling with a shaken sense of personal security and complicated feelings about how their community was targeted.
“I’m definitely gonna carry this with me,” Jamari said after school last week.
of killing as many Black people as possible. He wore body armor and livestreamed as he fired on shoppers and workers, killing 10 and wounding three more.that his motivation was preserving white power in the U.S., and he chose to target Buffalo's East Side because it had a large percentage of Black residents.
“The fact that he wasn’t that much older, it’s really taken a toll,” said Jamari, who feels especially protective of his four siblings, the youngest of whom is 5. “You get to thinking, ‘Who’s going to do what?’ It could be your best friend. You just never know.”“I get the sense of like, ‘What am I doing here? Didn’t 10 people die over here with my skin color from a racist person?’” he said at a recent conference put together by the family of shooting victim Ruth Whitfield, who was 86.
“It was really hard to watch my family grieve like this, also to understand Black people anywhere are just under constant threat. It’s so sad," Whitfield’s great-granddaughter, Nia Funderburg, 19, said at the conference."I hate carrying this pain for us.
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