Ahmaud Arbery case puts spotlight on community's race legacy.
Rev. John Perry III, president of the Brunswick, Ga., NAACP, flanked by area ministers, speaks to reporters in front of old city hall on May 6, 2020.The Rev. John Perry III, president of the Brunswick branch of the NAACP, moved to the city 13 years ago, and was “pleasantly surprised that the people here have a great heart,” he said.
Still, he does not think the problem is one of “racial hatred.” Instead, he points to the fact that people in power tend to help people they know, and often the people in power are white. Also at the protest was 82-year-old Robert Griffin, who moved to Brunswick in 1961 as the all-black high school’s band director. Almost everything at the time was segregated, so Griffin joined the local NAACP to work toward integration.
Even in the wake of Arbery’s killing, Griffin insisted there’s more unity than racial unrest in Brunswick.
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