NEWS
News programmes were full of the change of President –
relief from the majority, anger from a vociferous and violent minority.
Spencer couldn’t watch – it was too late for his dad,
who had died a month earlier. No headlines for him – just another statistic, a
black man who’d wandered inadvertently into the path of a white supremacists
march.
Spencer had sold his car to spare his family the shame
of a pauper’s funeral, and now he went to work on public transport, the only
one wearing a mask.
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This won't be the only story prompted as much by the US situation as by the photograph, but I couldn't think of any other way to read Rochelle's photo. Here in England we can only hope that America manages to heal itself without violent civil war - from our side of the Pond it looks perilous in the extreme.