Randy Shrewsberry, Huffington Post - Years
ago, I was helping a supervisor at a single-car crash. A black man
collided head-on into a concrete divider, and died at the scene. I was
detouring the ensnarled traffic when my corporal, who had been alongside
the victim, shared an update.
“When I got here he was
alive, but fading. His eyes were opening and closing real slow and I
could feel his pulse slowing down.” He paused, and with the smoothness
of a perfectly timed punch line, the corporal said “So, I whispered in
his ear, ‘Today is the day you die, nigger.’”
I stood horrified.
Then, I did nothing.
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