The Critique: “Existing may well be the greatest leap of faith that one can make in this country of hate and guns and fear,” Robin Givhan writes. “There is also no end in sight.”
Saturday afternoon at Tops Friendly Markets in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo is the deadliest mass shooting of 2022 but it’s one of more than 200 so far. Authorities believe the alleged attacker posted his intentions and motivations online. He declared himself a white supremacist and antisemite; he laid out his plan to target a Black community. He dressed himself in body armor, loaded himself down with artillery and opened fire — as he live-streamed his diabolical actions.
When did all of this begin? Was it Columbine in 1999? Was it with the angry postal worker in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1991 who killed four people? Or maybe it began in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921?Over the years, every resident of this country has learned that no setting is off limits to a mass shooting. When it happens, people utter the platitude about never thinking that such violence could happen in their own community.
In Buffalo, the shooter sought out his victims. He came for them. There are a host of historical, systemic and economic reasons Black residents often live clustered together in neighborhoods where they have to lobby for basic city services. The effects of redlining remain and de facto segregation is a reality. The steady drip of racism has long been a caustic, never-ending burden. In Buffalo, the community of Black residents had fought to get a supermarket in their neighborhood.
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