Adichie Speaks On Why She Has Not Written About Police Killings Of Black People On Her Blog

 

 

Chimamanda Adichie 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?”