As Americans, we’ve rarely had the luxury of seeing what grace looks like when practiced by powerful people, instead of scorned and then celebrated when it spells their absolution
Photo: Tom Fox/AP/Shutterstock In a show of grace, Brandt Jean hugged his brother’s killer in court on Wednesday and forgave her. “If you are truly sorry,” Jean told Amber Guyger, “I know I can speak for myself, I forgive you.” Guyger had been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing Botham Jean in his home.
Black grace is so potent and so vaunted a force in part because its alternative inspires so much fear. D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation , America’s highest-grossing film prior to 1939, famously reimagined Reconstruction as a time when vengeful ex-slaves “[asserted] an abusive dominion over Southern whites,” as The New Yorker’s Richard Brody writes.
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