Herschel Walker Is an American Tragedy
Black bodies, white agendas
Commodity. Chattel. Contraband. Capital. What is a Black body in the South? What is a Black southern man, carted out to work a white-owned field?
It’s impossible today to talk about Black men and white agendas without talking about Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate in the runoff election in Georgia. But in order to talk about Walker, I’ve got to start in what may be his actual state of residence, Texas.
[Jemele Hill: Herschel Walker’s candidacy is just insulting]
I watched the film version of almost obsessively during my senior year of high school. My father had just died.
