Buffalo's unrelenting tragedy: 'We haven't really got a chance to heal.'
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The mourners arrived in fur coats and hats, gem-studded jackets and leopard-skin prints, filling True Bethel Baptist Church in East Buffalo on a cloudy Friday morning for the funeral of Morris Singer Jr.
Black residents have been hit especially hard. In a community marked by segregation and poverty, more than half of the storm victims were Black, even though Black residents account for only about 14% of Erie County’s population. The disaster followed the massacre of 10 Black people at a Tops supermarket in East Buffalo at the hands of a racist gunman last spring. Many residents say the trauma from the shooting has not yet eased.
Denise Sweet’s family dodged the worst of the storm but won’t soon forget the devastation. Days after the snow stopped falling, they drove around their neighborhood to scope out the damage. They spotted 10 cars draped in either yellow or red tape, signifying which ones had bodies removed and which ones still had bodies inside. Her 14-year-old son, Simier, wondered if they had known any of the victims. “I didn’t really think too much about what snow could do to a person,” he said.
Her family had a personal connection to one of the 10 victims of the shooting at the Tops grocery store, and they have been too fearful for their safety to return to the shop. LeCandice Durham had been in counseling since the shooting. An operator for the city’s 311 service, she took calls during the storm from residents in dire situations.On the morning of Morris Singer’s funeral, as family and friends celebrated his life inside the church, his mother, Elizabeth Singer, 89, watched a livestream from her nursing home. Morris Singer was the last of her five children alive. “This storm has taken her family,” said Tamieka Johnson, Morris Singer’s niece.
In some quarters, the community’s grief has been tinged with anger, directed at political leaders who they believe did too little to prepare for the storm. Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has insisted that his administration took every action it could have to prepare residents for the storm and respond to their needs once it struck. Experts at New York University — at the request of the city — and Buffalo University are investigating whether that is actually the case.
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