Reverse the Races and This Is “A Window Into America”
Bert Atienza went to church, then Walmart, then the morgue. 77. Filipino-American. 42 years married. He asked a teen employee to say excuse me after she nearly hit his wife with a cart. She called her parents. They found him looking at a shelf. He died of blunt-force trauma. Second-degree murder charges. Store video. Widow on local TV. National news changed the subject.If the races were reversed, it would be a month of panels, hashtags, and a shopping cart in a museum. Instead it was Norfolk local and a “wrong coloring book.” Same country. Different liturgy.This is not a suitcase to MSNBC. It…
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