Our crimes, our tragedies, our silence; make me stop writing about them
Updated 9:55 AM;
Today 7:54 AM
A woman was killed and five others injured - ages 21, 17, 16, 15, and 5, when gunfire erupted inside Birmingham s Patton Park on East Sunday night. City and community leaders say it must stop.
Facebook Share
This is an opinion column.
I’ve written this column too many times. I’m incensed because I’ll probably have to write it again.
I’ll keep writing it, too, until Black men and women and children peaceful lawful citizens may safely fellowship in our parks on a beautiful spring Easter Sunday afternoon, can grill for goodness sakes, without having to scurry from gunfire, without having to use their bodies to shield children.