Black Atlanta Children Are Being Murdered
- ISBN-10
- 1630214493
- ISBN-13
- 9781630214494
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-09-10
- Author
- Kristy Thomas
Description
Sharon is an African American woman in her late forties. She stands in her childhood home looking around the room and sharing the memories of her childhood in that room. She remembers her and her brothers watching television, playing tag with her friends and the moment that their friends started to be murdered. She speaks in depth of the Atlanta Child Murders that happened in Atlanta in 1979-1981. Black children in her neighborhood were being kidnapped and murdered at an alarming rate, unfortunately for a really long time it was only alarming to the black people that lived in that neighborhood. She talks about the idea of American history continuing to repeat itself and at the lack of basic appreciation for the lives of black people. She recounts the difficulty of just being a normal kid in a time like this and how this experience affected her life and the lives of her brothers in a negative way. Her story is raw an heart felt as we realize that what she reflects on now is just another page in our history of the dismissal of black lives. A beautiful story of how survival can always sit on your shoulders and weigh you down as you remember the people who died. *Performer must be African American, but pronouns could be changed to be male or female with the writer's permission. This character is fiction.
