And then they threw a lighter at me, and my neck caught on fire and I tried to put it out, but I brushed it up onto my face.” “I turned my head to look and somebody’s throwing lighter fluid on me. “I was listening to some music at a stoplight and then all of a sudden I heard someone yell the N-word really loud,” she said in an interview, according to Madison365. Althea Bernstein, an 18-year-old EMT and student, was driving her car in Madison, Wis., on Wednesday, when a group of white men lit her face on fire. A horrifying attack on a Black teenage girl is enough to remind us that racially motivated violence has gone nowhere, however.
It’s been one month since Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd, and in some ways, it feels like the Black Lives Matter movement is receding from the headlines.
