White Women, What is (y)ours to do?
When Amy Cooper pointed her finger at Chris Cooper saying, with cell phone in her other hand, “I am going to tell them (the police) that an African-American man is threatening my life.”, a crystallization of decades and centuries of ghosts that have haunted this country came into sharp focus. The weaponization of white womanhood is so old. By both white women and white men. The “virtuous victim narrative“, that while largely created by white men, has been internalized and wielded by white women for so long against men of color. It was forged in […]