Moments of Black joy, love and tenderness
in a hellscape
Andre Mackniel, 53, was at that grocery store in Buffalo to buy a birthday cake for his 3-year-old son. This is a detail that I cannot stop thinking about. A father, preparing to celebrate the life of his young son, gunned down alongside nine others, the joy and celebration of the day quickly transmuted to sorrow. So quickly. So casually. So relentlessl…