The perils of being black in public: we are all Christian Cooper and George Floyd

PUBLISHED: The Guardian

TITLE: The perils of being black in public: we are all Christian Cooper and George Floyd

TAGLINE: Too often, by default, black people are perceived as threats to white people’s physical safety. We need fundamental, consequential and absolute change.

“In the summer of 1997, I lived in Seattle. I worked at a temp job while preparing to start my master’s degree in the fall. I was walking to a bus stop after a day at the office, when I stepped into a pothole on the street and heard my ankle crack.”