Renée Good knew White Silence is Violence

Image by Bradley Andrews.

There’s been a lot of focus on Renée Nicole Maklin Good as a mom. Parenthood is frequently used to construct a narrative of innocent victimhood, often while other complicating elements of a person’s identity are obscured. Good was a mother of three, and her death at the hands of the state will shape the rest of their lives. She was also a queer race traitor, and we’ve heard less about that.

We can’t know the mind of Jonathan Ross but, as Autum Brown said, “Renee Good was not killed despite being white.