105-year-old Kinston woman speaks out on police-Blacks relations
At 105 years old, Ruby Mae Kornegay has seen two world wars (she was only 6 when the first one ended in 1918, but she’d probably heard “Over There” being sung until she was ready to scream), the Great Depression and the strangle-hold and eventual strangulation of Jim Crow society. But she says she has never experienced the kind of hostility that she believes exists between police and the Black population. That isn’t to say she believes police are bad or that they all – or even most – hate Blacks, though. Kornegay is a Kinston resident—she has always been a Kinston resident. Duri...
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