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AFRICAN PEOPLE IN LOCKDOWN GLOBALLY
AFRICAN PEOPLE IN LOCKDOWN GLOBALLY
More than 20 historically Black colleges and universities have received bomb threats in the last three weeks since February 1, 2022. White supremacists in the South — and far beyond the South — have been targeting Black schools and churches since these institutions were founded. Ordinary citizens of African descent face various forms of lockdown through sanctioned agents of the state. Living in the United States in the era of bomb threats is not new to people of African descent. Most devastatingly, these acts of terrorism remind Black students that they still aren’t safe in America.
When four young black girls were killed in the bombing of a Burmingham, Alabama church in 1963, the F.B.I. director, J. Edgar Hoover, was directed his investigators not to disclose to local prosecutors the evidence they had accumulated against the suspects in a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed these four girls who were getting ready for Sunday service at the 16th Street Baptist Church. Is it any surprise that African Americans would come to seek refuge and safety in Mother Africa in continuance of an historic trend?
Prof. Oku Singer, Mechanical/Solar Engineer
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