Re-posting Katie Anthony’s post written after a white woman in Central Park responded to the request by a birder who is black that she leash her dog. The woman told him that she was calling the police to tell them that she was being threatened by a black man.
“Hi, I’m Katie. I’m white, and this post is for other white folks. . . . This post isn’t about the video. It’s about the responses to the video. Specifically, social media responses by progressive white women that might have come from a good place, but hoo boy, do they land in the bad place.
This post is about racist anti-racism, so prevalent in the instincts that led to millions of unexamined reactions to an act of racist violence.” To read the complete essay, click here.
We are all learning. Interesting essay, thanks for sharing.