Don’t Just Be Sad or Angry About the Buffalo Shooting, Take Strategic Action

9 min readMay 19, 2022

This is not just about guns. It’s about resisting the natural urge to accept institutionalized antiblackness and racialized violence as normal. The longer we succumb to passivity, the more normal it will become. And the best opportunity to take action? It might surprise you.

Two heroic male action heroes (one white, one Black) point guns in the foreground as action scenes cascade around them in the background. Text overlaid as follows: “Dr. Thadeus ‘Thoughts’ Thurman is a man of intellect. Rev. Prentiss “Prayers” Prescott is a man of faith. Together they’re going to clean up the city any way they can. When all else fails, you can only count on two things… THOUGHTS & PRAYERS.” — “Thoughts & Prayers” a satirical image of a fictional 70s-era action flick based on a common expression of generic support that tends to follow mass shooting tragedies

Don’t Just Be Sad or Angry About the Buffalo Shooting, Take Strategic Action

Written by Jelani Greenidge