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A black man was afraid to walk in his gentrified community. So 75 neighbors walked with him. [washingtonpost.com]

 

By Sydney Page, The Washington Post, June 3, 2020

Shawn Dromgoole is a 29-year-old black man who has lived in the same Nashville neighborhood his entire life.

His family has been in the neighborhood, known as 12 South, for 54 years. But Dromgoole said that since he was a child, he felt an unease in his hometown, acutely aware that few people looked like him.

“Growing up in my neighborhood, I could always feel the eyes, the looks and the cars slowing down as they passed by me,” said Dromgoole, who was recently furloughed from his job at Nordstrom as a logistics processor.

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