We Bless Each Other With Safety In An Unsafe America
6 min readJun 10, 2022
*The story contains African-American Vernacular English in the first two paragraphs of this article. You can read more about AAVE here.*
As I walked out of the 7-eleven in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, I said to an elderly Black man (who was drinking coffee, and smoking a cigarette while leaning against the front of the store):
