On Saturday, at the very hour that the people of Chestertown, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, gathered to remember the Black man lynched there by a white mob in 1892, police say a white teenager fueled by racist hatred started shooting people at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York.
He is accused of shooting 13 people in all, 11 of them Black. Ten of his victims died.
It was the latest mass shooting in a violent nation that has more guns than people — and 46% of all privately-held guns in the world — and the latest in a sickening series of hate crimes.
