Amy Cooper’s Anti-Black Wisdom

Andre Henry
5 min readMay 26, 2020

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."

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Andre Henry

Best-selling author, award-winning musician, and activist writing about resilience and revolution.