Amy Cooper’s Anti-Black Wisdom

This white woman’s 911 call shows that antiblack violence was not about fear, but skill.

**content warning: the n-word lurks below**

Amy Cooper doesn’t want us to think she made an attempt on a Black man’s life this week. “I’m not a racist,” she told CNN. “I did not mean to harm that man in any way."

The video footage of the encounter tells a different story.

Christian Cooper (a Black man of no relation) confronted Amy, who is white, for allowing her dog to go about unleashed in an area of New York City’s Central Park where leashes are required.

“I’m calling the cops,” Amy Cooper warns in response.

“Please call the cops,” Christian Cooper dares.

“I’m gonna’ tell them there’s an African-American man threatening my life,” she says. In the video that captured this encounter, Amy can be seen going for the Oscar in her 911 call:

“There’s an African-American man, I’m in Central Park, he is recording me and threatening myself and my dog,” she tattles.

“I’m being threatened by a man in The Ramble [that’s the area of the park they were in] please send the cops immediately,” she insists in a distraught voice she keeps in the pocket of her hoodie — you know, just in case.