All the Sinners Bleed

by S.A. Cosby

Evidence could be tainted. Your gut could lead you astray. You had to find a balance between technique, intuition, and the truth.

but that was the thing about violence. It didn’t always wait for an invitation. Sometimes it saw a crack in the dam and then it flooded the whole valley.

“‘For I have been young and now am old but I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging for bread.’ You’re the righteous, Pop. Because of you, a lot of people have never had to beg for bread,” Titus said.

“Treat people bad, bad comes back to you,”

It occurred to him no place was more confused by its past or more terrified of the future than the South.

For a lot of these folks that statue is just a symbol of everything they fear they’ve lost. And people like you, like me, like Reverend Wilkes, we make easy scapegoats,” Titus said.