Every time Edward Walton laces up his running shoes, no matter where he is, there is a calculus he takes into consideration: What time of the day is it? What neighborhood will I run in? What am I wearing?
And when he’s outdoors, he says, it adds up again: Am I running too fast? Does it look like I’m fleeing from someone?
“It’s the math,” Walton, 51, a cybersecurity architect and consultant in metro Atlanta, said, “of running while black.”
The killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who his family says was out for a jog when he was chased and fatally shot by two white men in late February, has renewed a national conversation about racial profiling and when black Americans, in particular, are accused of criminal behavior in the midst of routine, everyday activities, such as mowing a lawn or waiting inside a Starbucks.
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