“Murder” of Ma’Khia Bryant: the BLM storyline that didn’t check out

Ashley Herzog
4 min readApr 4, 2023
Photo by Chris Henry on Unsplash

Dear boujee media people covering the Ma’Khia Bryant shooting: please stop trying to downplay knifings in an effort to look “pro-black.” They’re already calling it the “murder of Ma’Khia Bryant” and referring to 16-year-old Bryant, who was chasing another black girl with a knife, as a “baby.” This is the epitome of pandering. Even OJ Simpson thinks you’re full of shit — and…

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Ashley Herzog

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