Black and Blue

Some things just have to be said. In this time of renewed racial contention, it is somehow fitting—and timely—that one of the unsung heroes of the Wild West era was a Black man who wore a badge and rode for the law. Talk about a bridge to the present. I think it’s high time we celebrated this amazing lawman who logged over 3,000 arrests in a three-decade career and shot it out with, and won, against 14 to 20 bad guys (the record on exact kills is unclear). [caption id="attachment_999