Buffalo's racist massacre

The news cycle whirls on. But I'm not willing to let Black Buffalo's trauma be pushed out of mind by new horrors.

Fortunately, some news organizations are providing those of us at a distance a means to learn something from the Buffalo community torn apart by a white supremacist, a sick evil man with a big gun.

Most local TV news is a cesspool of over-hyped police procedural pseudo-drama. But this local reporter stumbled into evoking honest answers from a small gathering of auto workers near the massacre sight.

 

The clip is longer than I usually post here, but raw and necessary. These men have something to say. Bear with the dumb questions. The outrage in Buffalo is so strong, he gets answers.

This clip is shorter, more polished: community leaders make their pitch for what the Biden administration can do for the traumatized people. 

I can't testify that these are good organizations, but they seem to have at least some amount of ground level reality. Buffalonians will have to struggle to define what happens after this crime.

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• Open Buffalo

• Voice Buffalo