Over Memorial Day weekend, a video depicting an act of casual and cruel racism circulated widely on Twitter. In the video, an aggrieved white woman confronts the man holding the camera, dragging a cocker spaniel by the collar in one hand as she advances. “I’m asking you to stop,” she says. “I’m calling the police. I’m telling them there is an African-American man threatening my life.” The interaction goes on for a minute or so, and thankfully never escalates. Her voice grows sharp as her unfounded panic increases: “I’m being threatened by a man in the Ramble, please send the cops immediately!”\n
Christian Cooper is correct. The video perfectly captured the way white women can manifest a threat to their safety as a weapon, even if they are not actively being harmed. The video serves as a document of this insidious, pernicious, and common tendency, and provides a jumping off point for frank discussions about race. Amy Cooper’s actions are neither unique or special and there is little to learn from probing further into her background.
The piece functions as a write-around profile of Amy Cooper–an attempt to paint her as misunderstood. It includes some of the more sordid details of her life, firstincluding a salacious tidbit about how she reportedly “slammed” Martin Priest, a former paramour, for voting for Obama, and also later filed a lawsuit against Priest, alleging that she had lent him $65,000 with the understanding that he would leave his wife for her. Thegives Cooper’s life more nuanced consideration.
Alison Faircloth, 37, a neighbor and dog owner, recalled that last winter, she came upon Ms. Cooper on the verge of tears outside the building’s lobby. A doorman had cursed at her for no reason, Ms. Cooper told her. Ms. Cooper vowed to get the doorman fired, Ms. Faircloth said. But when Ms. Faircloth asked the doorman what had happened, he told her that Ms. Cooper had complained about a broken elevator, then cursed at him after she barged into a security booth and had to be removed by a guard.Advertisement
This sense of Cooper, which Maslin Nir gathered from casual observers, isn’t quite the “troubled past” narrative the
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