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White Women Need To Stop: The Amy Cooper Version
One of the great things about Medium is that I get to write about whatever interests me. I don’t make a living off Medium, and I don’t write about how to make money on Medium. There are some weeks where I brainstorm topics to write about, only to find that the moment may have passed or that something else caught my interest.
I’ve only received an email ONCE because of my writing here. It was after I wrote about Susan Westwood, a white woman who harassed a black woman for no discernible reason. The individual was a white woman who wanted me to know that “all white women weren’t like that.”
Let me save you the time: I know that. I’ve dated white women, and there are white women that I care about in this world. However, I also pointed out that I was so sick of this pattern of entitled and racist white women that I felt that I had to title it a certain way — and I came up with “White Women Need To Stop: The Susan Westwood Version,” which you can read below.
This was about a year and a half ago. If you scroll through Twitter enough, you probably…
