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Sharing a few resources we've been reading after the events in Central Park's Ramble this weekend, in which Amy Cooper, a white woman, called the police on Chris Cooper, a black man. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/nyregion/amy-cooper-dog-central-park.html
First, catch Chris Cooper in "Birds in America" with @JasonWardNY, who is delightful. "It's hard to contain your excitement, especially when you're this close to a bird. But you have to be partying inside. Keep your party inside." https://twitter.com/JasonWardNY/status/1179484998266740736
"For those birds gone on, I mourn," writes Dr. J. Drew Lanham @1blackbirder. In this piece for @Orion_Magazine, he reflects on racism, who gets to define wildness, and the Carolina parakeet. https://twitter.com/Orion_Magazine/status/1265403739021729793
Dr. Lanham has written extensively on birding while black, like in this other great piece for @Orion_Magazine https://orionmagazine.org/article/9-rules-for-the-black-birdwatcher/
And for @lithub: "The chances of seeing someone who looks like me while on the trail are only slightly greater than those of sighting an ivory-billed woodpecker. In my lifetime I’ve encountered fewer than ten black birders." https://lithub.com/birding-while-black/
"The park rules? Those were for the birds," writes @brentinmock in his piece for @CityLab on safety - or lack thereof - in parks + public space. https://twitter.com/brentinmock/status/1265432147483033601
The history of green space as a place of safety for white people, but as a for segregation and violence against POC, is very long in the US, as Nylah Burton @yumcoconutmilk writes in @essence. https://www.essence.com/op-ed/amy-cooper-and-protecting-white-spaces/
