![]() ![]() ![]() And they’re especially likely to say it after they’ve already done something racist. ![]() If asked, most people would probably say they are not racist. But her claim of non-racism was a familiar one. Not everyone acquires the overnight infamy of Amy Cooper. “I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life,” she says in a video that quickly went viral. After all, the previous day she had used her position as a white woman to summon police - and the potential for police violence - against editor and birder Christian Cooper after he asked her to put her dog on a leash. The words rang especially hollow coming from Cooper. That’s what Amy Cooper, a white woman, said when she publicly apologized for calling the police on a black man bird-watching in Central Park. ![]()
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