Chances are, deluded mass murder suspect Payton Gendron doesn’t actually know any Black people to speak of. According to the 2020 census, his hometown of Conklin, New York, roughly 200 miles from the Buffalo supermarket where he allegedly acted out his deadly fantasies, has an African American population smaller than 1%. Gendron needed to drive for hours to locate a Black neighborhood to shoot up.
No matter. The killer wasn’t shooting individual human beings. He was shooting symbols, imaginary projections of his own twisted mind.
