Georgia Public Defender Council

COMMENTARY

Bookman: Arbery case’s true horror is safe harbor given for modern lynching

BY: - May 13, 2020

Only in recent years has white American culture become willing to stare the horror of lynching in the face, or at least glance at it sideways. It has done so only because time’s passage has made it feel safe to do so, allowing us to pretend that it was perpetrated by people utterly unlike ourselves. […]