Part VI: Eudora Welty and the Murderer Next Door
This section turns toward proximity.
Part VI of Who Decided? asks what happens when harm stops being abstract—when it’s no longer a headline, a villain, or a story about “somewhere else.” It’s about the moment we realize that systems survive through ordinary people, preserved innocence, and familiar faces.
Anchored in the story of Eudora Welty and the man who murdered Medgar Evers, this part isn’t about spectacle—it’s about recognition. It reveals how power hides in plain sight. How cruelty becomes domestic. How “good people” learn to look away.
It’s an invitation to notice where harm feels distant.
To question what innocence protects.
To sit with the discomfort of recognition.
This is where the myth of the monster breaks.
This is where the neighbor comes into focus.
Listen slowly.
Let it unsettle you.
