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In 2014 we lived in a white, suburban community. My daughter @AlexandriaV2005 attended a majority white elementary school. That school year, I discussed the systemic racism I saw in my daughter& #39;s school with another white mom. She then reported me to the principal -
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2/The next day, I recieved an angry call from my daughter& #39;s principal demanding to know why I called her school racist. I calmly detailed my perspectives, to which she disagreed and said I was wrong. We ended the call calmly, though I didn& #39;t capitulate.
3/The next few days word spread of my "beliefs". Women - white moms - stopped talking to me. My daughter was "disinvited" to friends homes. I was branded the white mom that called the school racist. The white fragility of the community was stunning.
4/Eventually, we left the school, then moved out of the community. I have NO friends back there. So that folks, is also what we need to be discussing with the #AmyCooper incident. White women patrol other white women and reinforce each others racism.
5/ #AmyCopper didn& #39;t act in a vacuum. If she were a white woman who calls out racial injustice instead of perpetuating it, she knows she could lose everything she enjoys - friends, community, jobs, opportunities - because other white women would ostracize her.
6/I guarantee #AmyCooper has a posse, maybe a mean girl group, but definitely a structure where she& #39;s required to be racist to fit in. For change to happen, white women have to be willing to lose everything. They have to understand that their "losses" are inconsequential -
7/to the injustice and violence experienced by people of color.
Someone asked if the principal was a white woman too - yes, yes she was.
