How Do I Make Sure I’m Not Raising The Next Amy Cooper?

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Date(s) - June 2, 2020
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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In our social media age, the figure of the “entitled White woman” who calls the police on people of color, especially Black people, simply for living their lives has become so common that she has become a meme. In a week also marked by the 100,000th official COVID-19 death in the United States and the death of a Black man, George Floyd, at the hands (and knee) of a White Minneapolis police officer, Amy Cooper took her place in that long, infamous line of White women. We believe that relatively few people would have behaved as Amy Cooper did in her Central Park encounter with Christian Cooper (no relation) on the morning of May 25th. But it is self-serving for the rest of us to think that we have nothing in common with her. The truth is that the attitudes and impulses reflected in her behavior are pervasive – and they are learned.

Join us for a conversation with Jennifer Harvey, from whose CNN article we draw our title, for a conversation about what the parents of White children, in particular, can do to ensure they’re not raising the next “Amy Cooper.”

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