BlueStarryHat
South Philly Girl
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2013
Equating minor Facebook drama with real-world murder trivializes the murder...and helps normalize it, which is demonstrably not okay.
This 'minor Facebook drama,' as you term it, is indicative of what African-Americans in this country put up with every single day. This woman got in his face and made a deliberate attempt to escalate the situation. When this didn't work, she got on the phone and tried to escalate the situation in a racist manner. Now, I'm not saying that she was trying to get him killed, but Mr. Cooper did not know WHAT would happen when the cops showed up. As a black man, he knew he had to stay calm at risk of his life. To me, this is the same as making black man doff their hats when a white person walks by like in the bad old days, and it's sickening.
This incident is the exception that proves the rule.