Photo Courtesy Akeem Baker
Ahmaud Arbery knew racism existed in the southern Georgia community he called home.
He and his best friend Akeem Baker had conversations about it, but never discussed feeling as if their lives were at risk.
“We weren’t just out here in Brunswick living in fear,” Baker said. “We just understood that everything wasn’t all love everywhere we went.”
Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, remembers talking with him about the Trayvon Martin case in 2012. She said they agreed Martin was wrongly profiled and killed.
Cooper-Jones said she raised her son to avoid people who racially profiled him.
Now, that’s what many believe happened on Feb. 23 when Arbery was killed.
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