Hey everybody, before we get started, I want to say thanks to all of you who have made us part of your listening diet during this crazy time.

Our routines are all in chaos, and Lord knows there is more media out there than I can personally

take in right now so if you're tuning into us each week it suggests that we're

doing something that is truly useful for you and I'm just really proud of that.

So thank you.

And also, if you haven't heard our most recent episode

on the life and work of Ida B Wells,

be sure to add that to your cue,

because it's very much a companion piece to the one you are about to hear.

And again, thanks for listening.

I'm Kywright and this is the United States of Anxiety, a show about the unfinished business of our history and its grip on our future. You W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. I am maxed out on hearing about mortality.

So when the sadly and maxed out on hearing about mortality.

So when the sadly predictable news broke recently

that yet another black person had been killed in vigilante violence,

Ahmad Arbury was jogging through a neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia when two white men in a truck

confronted him and then one shot him.

I admit I did my best to just tune it out.

This week video of the incident surfaced and further inflamed the community.

Of course, that is not useful either.

I can just hear Ida Wells yelling at me from the past, reminding me that the only way to stop anti-black

violence is to confront it directly. Head on, eyes open. And Amad Arbury's killing

is absolutely part of more than a century worth of lynching that Ida began documenting in the 1890s.

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