“No one stops to think about the babies”: How do black youth feel when they see the people they love being murdered or mass incarcerated?
Samuel DuBose was on his way home to watch a movie with his 9-year-old son, Samuel Jr. According to Samuel Jr., "He was coming home that night and we had a projector so we were going to watch a movie on it but we didn't get to do that ... because he died." University of Cincinnati Officer Ray Tensing shot Samuel in his head after pulling him over for a missing license plate. And while Officer Tensing gets to go home to his family after posting bond, Samuel Jr. and his 12 brothers and sisters will never see their father again.
“I can’t get him back," Samuel Jr. told WLWT-TV, “he's gone, he's watching me right now, I can't see him or talk to him or nothing.”
In April of this year the New York Times published an article called "1.5 Million Missing Black Men":
In New York, almost 120,000 black men between the ages of 25 and 54 are missing from everyday life. In Chicago, 45,000 are, and more than 30,000 are missing in Philadelphia. Across the South — from North Charleston, S.C., through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi and up into Ferguson, Mo. — hundreds of thousands more are missing.
They are missing, largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars.
