Georgia on My Mind

Tangled Thoughts on the Atlanta Shootings

Bowen Yang among the crowd at the Rally Against Hate on March 21, 2021, Columbus Park, Chinatown, NYC

I heard the news of the Atlanta shootings while watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. The first words out of her mouth were that 7 people had been killed by a gunman in Atlanta. I held my breath and waited for the other shoe to drop — somehow I knew instinctively that this was not your average mass shooting event (as much as it disturbs me to call any mass shooting…