Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie has shared her thoughts on the murders of black people by the police in America.
She shared this while being interviewed at the Washington Ideas Forum, an event where leaders
gather to deal with issues like politics and policy, race and justice, education and technology and much more.
Adichie who started a blog, “The Small Redemption of Lagos” following her book, Americanah, said her blog was intended to be funny but she is so emotionally exhausted by the murders of black people in America that she has not been able to write a post about it on the blog.
Below is an excerpt from her interview with Mary Louise Kelly, a contributing editor at The Atlantic :
“I think what’s going on now just doesn’t give me room for humor. I think that I’m so emotionally exhausted by the murders that I don’t think I could find any space to wrap humor around what’s been happening in the past one year, two years.”
“It’s not just that you shoot a man who’s unarmed, it’s that you handcuff him when he’s clearly dying. There’s something about it that’s so unforgivably inhumane and to think that his race is part of the reason … I really do think that one of the terrible things about racism in this country is there’s a sense that blackness isn’t really seen as fully human in many quarters. I think that’s why these things happen. I think that’s why a man who is dying is handcuffed, that’s why a boy who is dead is left on the street for hours. It makes me wonder: What’s happened to that part of us that is good?”
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