Having lived with black men and women whose entire lives have been blighted by systemic racism, knowing also how even the systems that are supposed to help them discriminate against them and against all homeless people and add to their trauma and feelings of hopelessness, I look at the video in which Christian Cooper silently demands that Amy Cooper do his bidding on camera and I can't and won't think of him or of Melody Cooper as civil rights icons.
Amy Cooper was about to leash her dog. Christian Cooper wouldn't leave her alone. Irritable New Yorkers are not news.
