Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Gambled and Lost, But the Game Remains Rigged

Self-defense is for white folks because anti-Blackness is a reflex

Tim Wise
An Injustice!
Published in
8 min readNov 26, 2021

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I can’t say I wasn’t worried.

Although I felt more confident that Ahmaud Arbery’s killers would be found guilty than I ever did Kyle Rittenhouse, it was hardly a slam dunk.

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Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)