I am not...
Every time someone does something and then denies that they are the kind of person who would do that, I think of one of our former presidents.
In point of fact, President Richard Milhous Nixon was indeed a crook. Just ask the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote this in his 'eulogy' of Nixon.
"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning."
Now we have Amy Cooper. She is the woman captured in this video:
According to CNN, Ms Cooper is apologizing this morning for her actions yesterday.
"I'm not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way,"
Really? Then why did you threaten to call the police and claim an African-American man was threatening you? Why mention his race if you are not a racist? Is "I'm being threatened by a man" not enough? Do you believe that identifying your alleged attacker as African-American will add urgency to your false plea for help? Of course you did.
Here's a thought. Put your dog on the leash. If you want the dog to be able to run, get a longer leash. Get an expandable/retractable leash. Or just follow the rules. Don't whine that the dog run was closed.
How about not filing a false police report? That man was no threat to you. Except perhaps as a threat to expose your racism. You can whine about how your "entire life is being destroyed" but the destruction is of your own making. You set off the charges that brought your existence crumbling to the ground when you leveled false charges at a man who did nothing more than ask you to follow the rules.
Perhaps Ms Cooper can find some hope and solace in the story of Adam Smith. Name not familiar? Perhaps this will help.
The day after Mr. Smith posted that video, his employer fired him from his position as CFO of a medical supply company. Three years later, he and his family (wife and 4 kids) were living in a trailer and surviving on food stamps. But his LinkedIn profile shows that he started work at a company in 2019. Maybe his life is on the upswing again. Maybe that will happen for Ms Cooper.
But she owes the people she hurt by her actions, and that is a much larger group than just Christian Cooper, the man she tried to harm with a false police report; a lot more than her half-assed apology of this morning. She needs to acknowledge, rather than deny her racism. Will that happen? Time will tell.
In point of fact, President Richard Milhous Nixon was indeed a crook. Just ask the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote this in his 'eulogy' of Nixon.
"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning."
Now we have Amy Cooper. She is the woman captured in this video:
Oh, when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the famous Bramble in NY’s Central Park, where it is clearly posted on signs that dogs MUST be leashed at all times, and someone like my brother (an avid birder) politely asks her to put her dog on the leash. pic.twitter.com/3YnzuATsDm— Melody Cooper (@melodyMcooper) May 25, 2020
According to CNN, Ms Cooper is apologizing this morning for her actions yesterday.
"I'm not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way,"
Really? Then why did you threaten to call the police and claim an African-American man was threatening you? Why mention his race if you are not a racist? Is "I'm being threatened by a man" not enough? Do you believe that identifying your alleged attacker as African-American will add urgency to your false plea for help? Of course you did.
Here's a thought. Put your dog on the leash. If you want the dog to be able to run, get a longer leash. Get an expandable/retractable leash. Or just follow the rules. Don't whine that the dog run was closed.
How about not filing a false police report? That man was no threat to you. Except perhaps as a threat to expose your racism. You can whine about how your "entire life is being destroyed" but the destruction is of your own making. You set off the charges that brought your existence crumbling to the ground when you leveled false charges at a man who did nothing more than ask you to follow the rules.
Perhaps Ms Cooper can find some hope and solace in the story of Adam Smith. Name not familiar? Perhaps this will help.
The day after Mr. Smith posted that video, his employer fired him from his position as CFO of a medical supply company. Three years later, he and his family (wife and 4 kids) were living in a trailer and surviving on food stamps. But his LinkedIn profile shows that he started work at a company in 2019. Maybe his life is on the upswing again. Maybe that will happen for Ms Cooper.
But she owes the people she hurt by her actions, and that is a much larger group than just Christian Cooper, the man she tried to harm with a false police report; a lot more than her half-assed apology of this morning. She needs to acknowledge, rather than deny her racism. Will that happen? Time will tell.
posted by me at 8:06 AM
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