Letters: A black father and his son
After police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota shot and killed two black men, Eddie Glaude, chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, wrote to his son Langston. Langston, a rising junior at Brown University, replied. This is their correspondence.
Dear Langston,
I thought of you when I saw the son of Alton Sterling weeping at a press conference. It was the latest in a string of haunting public rituals of grief. The police had killed another black person. His cries made me think of you. It seems, ever since the murder of Trayvon Martin, and you were only 15 then, that you have had to come to terms with this fact: that police can wantonly kill
