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YO U R T U R N
reade rs react For those ready
for what’s next
current scandal. And yes, we are a com-
A Note to DAM Readers munity that fosters free speech. But give
Only
me a break: I was there (as a member of the
DAM’s staff and board are dedicated to making a great magazine for you. With all
staff and later arts editor of The Dartmouth)
the feedback about the Blake Neff ’13 item in our July/August issue, let me say
when The Review was founded. We have
loud and clear: We hear you, and we thank you.
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Our coverage of Neff is a matter of newsworthiness, given his prominent role
conservative political philosophy, it was
with Tucker Carlson Tonight, a television show with enormous influence on the
in reality a means to express cruel, rac-
president of the United States. That said, DAM should have provided additional
ist, xenophobic, and homophobic ideas.
context and more rounded reporting to explain the role of Carlson’s show in to-
As an institution we may have no choice
day’s political culture. The magazine’s editorial board and I have held extensive
but to tolerate the existence of The Review
discussions about your feedback and the shortcomings in our story. The editors
on campus, but for DAM to highlight how
will be more rigorous moving forward.
one of its alums has now gone on to pro-
A week after DAM published the issue, CNN reported on July 10 that Neff
mote hateful ideas on a national scale with
had posted racist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments on an online forum
Carlson is a bridge too far. THISTLE HILL RETREAT GOOSE POND FOREST PRESERVE LAKE FAIRLEE WATERFRONT ESTATE
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important work, but in light of the racist,
We published all letters on our website in early August.
misogynistic, and homophobic comments
One thing I noticed in the letters: some misunderstanding about DAM’s re-
that he has posted online over the past few
lationship to the College. As the masthead says: “Editorially independent since
years, Neff is not one of them. Please re-
1905.” DAM’s mission, according to its charter, is to deliver “news of the College
move your profile of him in the current
and its alumni, provide a medium for the exchange of views concerning College
magazine. The College has nothing to be
affairs, and in other ways provide editorial content that relates to the shared and
proud of in calling him an alumnus.
diverse experiences and interests of Dartmouth alumni.”
SHARON GRAYZEL ’87
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his racist views. I hope that article stands
Further Review It’s so disappointing when alumni such
as Neff reinforce the negative aspects of
as his last appearance in these pages, but
history suggests that might not be the case.
I am extremely disappointed by the maga- Dartmouth’s brand despite all the good Consider the relatively small but highly vis-
zine’s decision to feature Neff, Tucker Carl- work that so many people are doing. I can ible cadre of alumni who’ve turned bigotry
son’s writer. Given Carlson’s regular racist, only imagine the impact on students and into a highly remunerative career path and
sexist, and false remarks, the institution alumni of color. how frequently they are mentioned in this
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Really? Out of all the remarkable Dartmouth view. Neff ’s journey from being a bigot in WRITE TO US
alumni since 1769, you had to pick Neff? a small town in New Hampshire to being a We welcome letters. The editor reserves the
ETHAN BRAUNSTEIN ’67 bigot on the national stage should remind right to determine the suitability of letters
Flagstaff, Arizona us that The Review remains a stain on the for publication and to edit them for accuracy
Dartmouth experience and serves only to and length. We regret that not all letters
can be published, nor can they be returned.
You picked the wrong person to lionize. create a pathway to influence and fame for Letters should run no more than 200 words
The Dartmouth Review tormented Native the worst of our College. Yet again, The Re- in length, refer to material published in the
and Black students for years. We were tor- view and its alums have brought shame to magazine, and include the writer’s full name,
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LETTERS
reade rs react
news for a provocative tweet or screed, then I was so disappointed to find out that Neff is just right and wrong. of, Carlson and his racism and misogyny. It important intelligence work during World in his answers to the questions about his
earns another mention in an alumni publi- is a Dartmouth alum. We certainly do not MIRIAM INGBER ’01 AND PETER VASSILEV ’00 would appear to be a pretty clear call that War II and knew far more than he was becoming a welding teacher and how he
cation. What responsibility do we have as want to celebrate him. He’s offensive and Westport, Connecticut this son of Dartmouth’s accomplishments telling. describes one of his toughest assignments,
an institution to opt out of promoting those an embarrassment. do not deserve celebration. The embarrass- What has stayed with me all these when he had to weld upside down using a
alumni whose careers are a constant test LAURA FRIEDMAN KLEIN ’91 What a “nice” coincidence to have Carol ment from Neff ’s resignation because of years was his explanation of the knowl- mirror for orientation.
of the line between political opinion and Brookeville, Maryland Muller’s interview [“A Failure to Dig Deep- his own postings of racist and misogynistic edge Prime Minister Churchill and the Al- Also on page 17, “Blast from the Past”
inflammatory hate speech? Is it necessary er,” July/August] on the same wall space views under the shield of a pseudonym is lies had of the Nazi extermination camps describes the time when the Spanish
to write sympathetically about convicted Yet another member of The Review joins as the recognition of Neff’s achievements! just confirmation. and the decision they came to with respect influenza epidemic of 1918 hit campus.
felon Dinesh D’Souza ’83? Must a book by the ranks of the disgraced. I’m rolling on Reminders of a couple of Dartmouth’s lega- While Dartmouth is a great institution, to how to deal with them. Our leaders un- Students’ isolation and restrictions then
Laura Ingraham ’85 be noticed? the floor laughing my ass off as I wallow in cies—of John Kemeny, an important mentor not everything its alumni do is great, even derstood that until armies on the ground mirror some of those we see today, with
When alumni profit from white su- schadenfreude. of mine [who oversaw Dartmouth’s decision if influential. I am sure there are many like could actually reach them, there was little the coronavirus slamming communities
premacy and exclusionary politics that JOHN CHAMBERLIN ’70 to go coed], and also of the College’s insular, me—who graduated and, without fanfare, that could be done to help them. Perhaps so hard.
conflict directly with the College’s values, Falls Church, Virginia sometimes racist and sexist, environment. worked hard and became leaders in their more significant was the decision that if Joy opposing misery. The placement of
why must we remain neutral? Plenty of NEIL HENRY, ADV’60 communities—who have a difficult time the Nazis were willing to divert precious these two succinct and pithy articles side-
other media outlets with distributions Yet again I find myself incredibly disap- Richmond, Virginia seeing their values in this editorial choice. resources from the fight to prevent the ad- by-side was most intriguing and heartfelt.
exponentially greater than DAM’s will pointed by Dartmouth. It is totally appalling It is possible someone may wish to turn vance of the Allied armies to the operation Well done.
continue covering their every utterance. that DAM would publish a feature on Neff. As a parent of a Dartmouth ’16, ’18, and ’21 my comments into a partisan attack. Noth- of these camps, our leaders were prepared FIONA BAYLY ’89
We cannot revoke their diplomas or deny Regardless of the fact that he was just re- as well as the wife of a Tuck board member, ing could be further from my point. There to permit them to do so, as the “better” of New York City
their alumni status, but let’s at least decide cently caught posting racist and misogynist I am horrified by the news of Neff and his are legitimate and illegitimate conservative the choices available.
to stop including notices about them in diatribes online, he writes for a racist and racist posts. I would hope that DAM will perspectives just as there are legitimate Those of us who were children during In the Booth
alumni publications. misogynist TV host and lets us know that hold Neff accountable and run a follow- and illegitimate liberal perspectives. Carl- World War II and came of age during the Thank you for profiling Aileen Chaltain
ANDREA GREER ’93 those are his words that Carlson is saying on up article condemning Neff and exploring son, and the hateful words he spews, bear Korean and Cold wars, and actually met [“Look Who’s Talking,” July/August]. I ush-
Houston TV. He’s proud of that, of course, but should the role Dartmouth has played, if any, in almost no resemblance to, for example, and knew at Dartmouth refugees from the ered at the Hopkins Center during my four
DAM be? I fail to understand how someone forming or allowing his racist views and George Will, David Brooks, and The Wall 1956 rebellion in Hungary, learned that years at Dartmouth, first as a volunteer and
Congratulations on your timely piece about writing for a TV personality who has a clear the College’s current race culture. Street Journal. in the field of ethical and moral decision- then as a paid head usher. Aileen was the
Neff on the eve of his firing. Have you con- disdain for women and for people of color SONIA F. MCARDLE GEORGE STRANDER ’84 making the predominant “color” is “gray.” manager at that time, and it’s wonderful to
sidered running similar articles about should be celebrated. Does the College feel Chicago Albion, Michigan That is why it is so disappointing that the hear that she is still a leader at the Hop all
Dartmouth grads serving time on death row proud of the job it did educating [Neff ] if teachers and administrators of our current these years later. I have excellent memories
or in hospitals for the criminally insane? these are the views he graduated with? I The timing of the article highlighting Neff Good Question generation of “woke” students have failed of the movies and musical and theatrical
GREG PRENTISS ’66 would hope the College is working to edu- may have simply been unfortunate, and “My Arrest” [“Personal History,” July/Au- to help them learn that in matters of good performances that occurred. I also fondly
Lakeview, Arkansas cate and graduate students who value and DAM would never knowingly publish a gust] by Keith Boykin ’87 was timely and and evil there are few vivid “colors” to as- remember the monthly head usher meet-
celebrate diversity and graduating white glowing article about an alum who proudly alarming. Why would a Black CNN politi- sist us. The world is far from as simple as ings led by Aileen. Her warmth and humor
To find a feature in the most recent issue people who understand the privilege that espouses racism, homophobia, and sex- cal reporter and teacher at Columbia Uni- they apparently believe. really made the job fun.
about Neff under the headline “The Right they were born with and that they carry as ism. We are hoping that his unmasking and versity, who was photographing a protest ALAN M. SHAVER ’60 ELIZABETH TERRY ’92
Stuff ” is truly disgusting. It gets worse. Ivy League graduates. Lord knows the Col- subsequent dismissal from Fox was exactly on New York City’s streets after George Brunswick, Maine Cambridge, Massachusetts
The magazine flippantly adds that Mr. Neff lege needs more diversity—and celebrating at the same time as this article was being Floyd’s murder, get arrested? Boykin con-
worked for The Daily Caller as if it were graduates such as Neff certainly won’t help written, printed, and mailed. veys the absurdity of his experience—ar- President Thad! Cover Offense
some innocuous broadsheet instead of a it attract a student body population that it Neff does not reflect conservatism, and rested and in the custody of the NYPD for I enjoyed the “Dad Thad” piece [May/ Your choice of Lis Smith ’05 and the man-
publication that has published a number of needs to be a successful school. he does not live up to the standards of being six hours that ended with him locked up June]. I loved Dean Seymour. He was as ner of representing her on the cover of
white supremacists, anti-Semites, and big- BROOKE LIERMAN ’01 a daughter or son of Dartmouth College let in a jail cell with 34 other inmates before fine a man as I’ve ever known. He talked DAM [“Trail Blazer,” January/February]
ots. DAM owes the Dartmouth community Baltimore alone a human being with any level of basic he was released. He was simply a middle- me out of dropping out when I was a scared offends me, as I can determine no merit in
an apology. People such as Neff, Laura In- human decency. aged Black reporter photographing another freshman. He loaned me his car to pick up her style, substance, or attraction as it per-
graham, and Dinesh D’Souza should never My husband and I are both alums and were We are ashamed to see that he is an protest. I hope DAM prints more about the my date in “White Rivah,” Vermont. tains to what I hoped from my Dartmouth
be featured. These people have no business frankly appalled to see the article about alumnus but unfortunately not surprised words, thoughts, and actions of Black and My six college warnings brought us up experience of the early 1960s. Many of us
being anywhere near the Dartmouth we Neff. To have that article come out the that he is a former Review staffer. His in- white undergraduates who are working close and personal on many occasions. did not learn to drink responsibly, regard
all love. week Carlson besmirched Tammy Duck- tolerance and cruelty is typical of some of hard to help release all of us from the grip I’ll never forgive Dartmouth for not women respectfully, or have the privilege
NICK BERNSTEIN ’84 worth—a disabled woman of color and war the more notable Review alums. of systemic racism. naming him president. He would have of matriculating with them. Perhaps this
Brooklyn, New York hero—was ridiculous. And Carlson is so Please write an addition or correction WILLIAM HENGST ’61 been perfect. is why I shed my graduation gown faster
racist and sexist that many advertisers acknowledging who and what Neff is and Philadelphia MARSH POTTERTON ’62 than Houdini shed a strait jacket when
There is no place for the racist, sexist com- will not even pay for ads on his show. But what he’s done, and that the College does Northfield, Illinois immersed 20 feet in New York Harbor,
ments of Neff in the Dartmouth commu- I held off on saying anything until learning not condone his vile views and, in fact, ab- Spy Games anxious to see the real world again at last.
nity. I’m incredibly embarrassed to have why Neff had to resign from Fox News. I hors and rejects them. The Rick Beyer ’78 article, “The Professor Doubleplusgood Your choice of adulating Smith graphically
graduated the same year. The recent article am shocked but not surprised. This is ex- IKE ANYANWU-EBO ’94, TH’96, Was a Spy” [July/August], took me back One particularly excellent page from the and pictorially must offend a great many
misrepresents what kind of person he is actly the kind of person who would commit AND CARMEN HARDEN ’96 to the pleasure experienced when I took May/June edition of DAM both delighted women and men who were culled from the
and undesirably draws more attention to themselves to working for Carlson. You Thornton, Colorado professor Eldredge’s course on propaganda and fascinated me. The “Look Who’s Talk- best of the best to benefit from Dartmouth. I
his connection with Dartmouth. owe all of us an apology for normalizing in my senior year. I disagree, however, that ing” column on page 17 featured Jimmy had hoped my College had come a long way.
JANE CAI ’13 and glamorizing this work. There aren’t I was disappointed to see your piece on “his students never knew.” It was eminently Martell, the College welder, with great hu- PETER DORSEN ’66
New York City two sides to every story. Sometimes there Neff, a kindred spirit with, and mouthpiece clear to us that Eldredge had engaged in mor and spark (pun intended). I delighted Eagan, Minnesota
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burnout is
a real Varsity Blues
issue.”
COMMENCEMENT
VISITING VOICES
▲
1,914
Degrees conferred Can you explain the purpose of your new role in
during the virtual the president’s office?
ceremony June 14
Trying to provide advice to Dartmouth leadership
about how Dartmouth can do better to serve stu-
CLASS OF 2020 dents, faculty, and staff of color. I don’t have decision-
12
On July 9 the College announced
making power. Part of my job is to convey a sense the elimination of five varsity sports:
of urgency and possibility to leadership, to push both swimming and diving teams,
them to do things they might not normally be both golf teams, and the men’s
ICONOGRAPHY
“The guardians
comfortable doing. lightweight rowing team.
Winds of Change
Valedictorians and Additionally, Hanover Country Club
salutatorians What’s your most important goal?
of the status quo
has been shuttered.
110
recognized at Increasing the number and success of faculty
Controversial weathervane comes down for good. Commencement
are always on of color on campus.
hand with their
On June 25, after nearly a century atop the highest point What are the current numbers on that
>
0
SPORTS front?
on Dartmouth’s campus, Baker Library’s weathervane Athletes who played for
was taken down from its perch. In the weeks leading up to its
removal, students and alumni joined a petition that criticized
oxygen tents to The number of Black faculty has remained
around 3 percent for nearly two decades.
the cut teams
keep the old
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the weathervane’s design for its “racist” and “stereotypical” The College is much more diverse at the un-
Athletic contests to
order alive.”
portrayal of Native Americans. be held by Ivy League dergraduate level than it was two decades
The weathervane depicts Dartmouth’s founder, Eleazer schools this fall. There ago. The faculty hasn’t kept pace, and that
Wheelock, sitting on a stump above a feather-clad Native will be no sports until —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., MAY 23, 1962, poses a problem because a lot of students
at least January. IN 105 DARTMOUTH HALL of color turn to faculty of color as mentors, Positions cut from the athletics
American man smoking a pipe. A round object—presumed to department, including eight coaches
be a barrel of rum—rests behind Wheelock. as advisors, and that places a tremendous
“It was a lampoon of Native Americans that shouldn’t have amount of pressure on those faculty. I think
taken 92 years to come down,” says David Vincelette ’84, who burnout is a real issue.
created the online petition in late May demanding the weath-
ervane’s removal. It garnered nearly 900 signatures.
How do other Ivy schools compare? $2 million
Dartmouth has a national reputation, earned or Amount the College claims it
The removal marks the College’s latest step in addressing unearned, as a particularly white space among will reap in savings from the course
its historically troubled relationship with Indigenous peoples. the Ivies. More so than Columbia, Penn, even and team cuts
Though chartered as an institution for educating “youth of Harvard, it’s seen as a very kind of white, coun-
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the Indian tribes,” Dartmouth did not graduate its first Native try clubish college. On the faculty side, none of
American student until 20 years after its founding. Two years the Ivies are doing very well. I really think that if
ago Dartmouth relocated its controversial Hovey murals— Dartmouth were to commit to this seriously, in five to
which illustrate a legend of the College’s creation involving seven years we could be the leader among Ivies. We’re
visibly inebriated Native American men and half-nude Native a small enough institution that making real com- Years since the swimming and
American women. The weathervane, to art history professor diving teams were last dropped by
mitments to this can move the needle very quickly.
the College, before reinstatement
Marlene Heck, was yet another “expansion of the myth” that
What do you think of the College’s goal to have for 2003
Wheelock successfully educated and evangelized Native Ameri-
cans. Meanwhile, Native American iconography still appears in 25-percent minority faculty by 2025?
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other places on campus, such as chandeliers featuring “Indian I don’t think that’s a super-ambitious goal. If we just
heads” in the Paganucci Lounge in ’53 Commons. keep doing business as usual, we’re not going to get
The process of taking down the weathervane was “pretty there.
quick and easy,” according to capital renewal project manager How do you respond to people who claim racism is Years since Hanover Country Club
Patrick O’Hern. The College initially considered bringing in a not an issue on campus? added nine holes to become an
helicopter for the job, but a crane proved to be a more efficient Listen to members of our community to understand 18-hole course
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, COLORIZATION SANNA DULLAWAY
option. Around 7:30 on the morning of its removal, the crane lifted how the Dartmouth experience is different for dif-
1904
TOP: ROB STRONG ’04; BOTTOM: ELI BURAKIAN ’00
two workmen to the top of Baker Library, where they hooked ferent people. I think this is true for students, it’s
the weathervane onto a basket and brought it to the ground. true for faculty, for staff, it’s true for queer or dis-
The 600-pound copper relic is currently stored in an off- abled members of the community. There are plenty
campus facility maintained by the Hood Museum of Art. Vice of people whose identity shapes their lived experi-
Year that golf became a varsity
president of communications Justin Anderson has been placed ence of Dartmouth, and I think if we are serious sport at the College. Later came
CELESTIAL VISITOR
in charge of a working group to produce designs for a new weath- about creating an inclusive community, we have swimming (1921), lightweight rowing
The appearance of comet NEOWISE brought a bit of
ervane and determine other changes to designs around campus. excitement to a hot and quiet month of July. to be willing to listen to the lived experience of (1948), women’s swimming (1973),
—Elizabeth Janowski ’21 being here. —Svati Kirsten Narula ’13 and women’s golf (1981)
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Violations of the academic and determine election winners,
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during the spring term, not AFTER LANGSTON HUGHES JUST ANNOUNCED understood.”
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Ernie was shot. At the hospital the police support Russo and had their young kids on
skirted around what had happened. their shoulders. Officers outside the court-
We were able to see Ernie after hours room roughed up journalists, and nine were
My teenage brother was killed by a cop. Thirty years BR OT H E R LY LOVE of surgery. He lay there, heavily sedated. later disciplined by the police department.
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close. A tracheotomy tube in his neck. All “had a family to provide for.” The judge later
hen you hear “Black Lives the machines around Ernie beeped, but he granted him accelerated rehabilitation.
Matter,” know this: They do was non-responsive. He would never speak I’m a Christian. I have forgiven Russo.
matter. It’s not just a slogan. again. We slept at the hospital that night, the But I wanted him to say he was sorry. De-
It’s personal. In 1989 my brother, Ernie, next night, and the night after that. spite repeated requests, he never has.
was shot in the back at point-blank range The police chaplain on call that night At Dartmouth I never really talked
while face down on the ground as he was was Pastor Frederic O. Jackson, from our about the heartbreak of my brother’s death.
being handcuffed. The police officer said his church. He knew Ernie and our family well. A few friends knew. I fell into a deep de-
shotgun discharged accidentally. After two When he and an officer were on the way to pression senior year, even after being ad-
months of fighting for his life, Ernie died on our house after midnight to talk with “the mitted into Columbia Law School. I should
New Year’s Day 1990. family,” he did not realize it was us. He was have been happy. To fulfill a requirement
I was 15. Ernie was 19. We came from a horrified. Earlier that day he had driven me to do pro bono work, I worked in Norwalk
broken home. My parents divorced when I home from choir practice. with the state’s attorney’s office. I wanted to
was 4, and we lived with my father and his Since the death of George Floyd, and get over the fear and hatred I had for police
new wife for five years. Then we went to live the outpouring of Black Lives Matter pro- officers—and I have.
with my mother in Norwalk, Connecticut. tests this summer, this wretched experi- Were Ernie alive today, I imagine he
My brother was my protector, my ence for our family has all come back to would still be a fun, supportive brother. He
teacher, my confidant. People knew me as me. I have been crying like a 15-year-old. would have visited me at Dartmouth and
“Ernie’s little sister” and would not dare to At 5 one recent morning, I called Pastor cheered our little brother Ian as he played
bother me because he was fiercely protec- Jackson in tears. He, too, remembers the on his college basketball team. Ernie would
tive. We fought as brothers and sisters do, day as though it were yesterday. have been an adoring uncle to Ian’s chil-
but we also shared secrets and covered for Ernie suffered. He lost a kidney and dren, Elijah and Abigail.
one another. He intimidated all my male part of his small intestine and had other Ernie would have been voluntarily cut-
crushes in middle school. internal injuries. He lived on in critical ting grass for seniors in our church and
On October 26, 1989, when I was in condition for more than two months. repairing homes for people he did not know.
10th grade, everything changed. Ernie One day when Ernie was recovering He would still be playing practical jokes and
and a white friend were in my brother’s red from yet another surgery, we were alone brightening the lives of those around him.
pickup truck when two officers approached, together. I spoke and sang to him and held But he cannot.
responding to a report of an armed man in ice chips to his lips. I know he heard me—he He cannot breathe anymore.
Norwalk. The officers did not know that it responded with his eyes or by squeezing The horrific murders of George Floyd
was Ernie who had called the police after my hand. Kidding him, I asked if I could and countless others have reopened
seeing the gunman. For unknown reasons, go in his room and listen to his stereo— wounds. The pain will never go away.
my brother sped off when the police ap- something that had always been a source Black lives remain shattered when they’re
proached, but he stopped when his truck of conflict. At first, he shook his head no. treated as if they do not matter. Despite a
crashed into a stone wall. Then he slowly looked my way and nodded. $3.3-million settlement for our family, my
The officers ordered my brother and By December the doctors said he brother’s death at the hands of a white po-
his friend out of the truck. Both were un- was doing better. My parents and pastor lice officer was shattering, and it still has
armed. They were face down on the pave- thought I was spending too much time in repercussions.
PHOTO COURTESY TRACEY GAINOR; PHOTO ILLUSTRATION WENDY MCMILLAN/DAM
ment of Wolfpit Avenue with their hands the hospital and told me to go to Florida I’m not the only sister in this country
behind their backs when one of the cops with my high school band to perform in who has suffered this kind of devastation.
shot Ernie. Officer David Russo later said the Gator Bowl parade. When I called the So many Black sisters and brothers and
his weapon had gone off accidentally. My hospital from Disney World, my father an- mothers and fathers have gone through this
brother’s friend was unharmed. swered, crying and telling me I had to come kind of tragic agony. It did not start with my
The shooting took place around 10 p.m. home. Ernie had gone into cardiac arrest brother or George Floyd. Why has it taken
Well after midnight, the telephone rang. and was declared brain dead. I was there America so long to care?
It was one of Ernie’s friends. “Hi, your when he was taken off life support.
brother is in the hospital. You have to go,” I’ve always wondered if Ernie sensed TRACEY R. GAINOR clerked for the U.S. Third
he said. “What?” I asked. “Your brother was that I had left him—and had just given up. Circuit Court of Appeals and worked for 10
shot.” The Norwalk Police Department had Three days later my family and many years as an attorney in complex commercial
cleaned my brother’s blood off the street, of Ernie’s friends attended the courtroom litigation. She is now a high school teacher
contacted its internal affairs department, hearing for Russo on a misdemeanor in Baltimore.
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