The Danger of Amy Cooper’s Apology: When Privilege Inspires Selective Racism

Maya L, M.A.
3 min readMay 27, 2020

How a woman played innocent after knowingly weaponizing herself

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While the videos of Amy Cooper and George Floyd are going viral throughout the milieu of social media, many of us acknowledge how the correlation between Amy Cooper’s interaction with Christian Cooper can lead to a racially charged incident like George Floyd. But, there…

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Maya L, M.A.

I explore the intersectionality of race and culture from a humanistic lens. Host of The Renegade Professor Podcast.