Bryan Stevenson

Older people of color in the South would occasionally come up to me after speeches to complain about how antagonized they feel when they hear news commentators talking about how we were dealing with domestic terrorism for the first time in the United States after the 9/11 attacks. An older African American man once said to me, "You make them stop saying that! We grew up with terrorism all the time.The police, the Klan, anybody who was white could terrorize you. We had to worry about bombings and lynchings, racial violence of all kids.