I’m a 20-Year-Old Black Kid Who Covered the Kenosha Uprisings. Here’s What I Learned.

If not me, then who? A 40-year-old White man?

Adam Mahoney
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5 min readSep 21, 2020

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When the video of Jacob Blake getting shot seven times in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin, reached my timeline, I did what I usually do when Black trauma becomes a matter of mass consumption. I got angry.

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Adam Mahoney
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Black Journalist (he/him) focused on Black life, police and prisons. Split living between 310 and 312. Words in the Guardian, BuzzFeed and many more.