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Healing in Buffalo

Into America

MSNBC

Documentary, Blm, History, Social, George Floyd, Msnbc, Health, Breonna Taylor, Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, Ahmaud Arbery, Nbc News, News Commentary, Justice, Politics, Society, Government, Policy, Cultural, Culture, News, Society & Culture

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

One year after a racist mass shooting, Black Buffalonians share the many ways they’ve learned to heal.

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0:00.0

Just trying to wrap my head around doing it and just, you know, what it means and stuff

0:16.0

I got like, you know, representing so many people has kind of hard sometimes.

0:25.0

Fragrance Harris-Danfield has always loved performing her music but as she unloads her car and heads inside a small coffee shop in Buffalo

0:35.0

Fragrance is thinking about how long it's been since she's performed in public.

0:41.0

Very anxious, nervous. I don't know, I didn't sleep very well, I kept waking up, that's what happens.

0:49.0

Take that one. You got it?

0:51.0

Nearly a year ago, Fragrance was working at the nearby top supermarket when a white gunman showed up at the store with an AR-15 and open fire, killing 10 black people and wounding three others.

1:07.0

This is the worst nightmare that any community can face.

1:15.0

He was very heavily armed, he had tactical gear.

1:19.0

Sources say at least two rifles were recovered at the scene with the N-word apparently etched into one weapon.

1:25.0

This was pure evil, straight up racially motivated, hate crime.

1:33.0

For Fragrance, for most of the people in the store that morning, the scars are invisible and that makes what she's decided to do here even more important.

1:44.0

This is a moment and a space for the survivors, so it's just giving us a voice.

1:50.0

Just giving us a voice so people know who we are and kind of what we went through.

1:56.0

We're the survivors.

2:00.0

We first met Fragrance just two months after the shooting as the store was preparing to reopen.

2:06.0

I drove with her to the reopening ceremony as she was still trying to process what happened.

2:14.0

Physically, I can feel the thought of the possibility of even going close enough to be in the building.

2:22.0

What does that feel like?

2:24.0

There's a tightness, you know, I feel a tightening of all my core muscles right now.

2:32.0

Honestly, all of the rush of everything is starting to settle in. I can feel that I'm this close.

2:44.0

We stayed in contact ever since, checking in from time to time, like around the holidays last year.

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