Brittney Coopers latest includes much brilliance (as always), but in particular I was struck by this passage: to believe that (Michael) Brown charged at (Darren) Wilson in the midst of a hail of gunfire is to believe that black people are monsters, mythical superhuman creatures, who do not understand the physics of bullets, even as they rip through flesh. To white people, who co-sign Wilson’s account of events, this seems like an entirely reasonable assertion, one helped along by a lifetime of media consumption that represents black masculinity as magical, monstrous and mythic... Damn, that is on point. That white defenders of Wilson (who believed one particular witness, whose story was inconsistent and who was far away from the shooting when it happened, and who verified the charging at Wilson story) believed this nonsense is fascinating. How can anyone actually believe that a young man who already knows the cop will shoot him (because he was shot in the hand already while at the car) would start charging him (as if he wouldnt shoot again, and as if he could manage to tackle the cop before the cop could get off another round, or several), boggles the mind. It requires a person to believe that Mike Brown was the most irrational person in history. Or, as Cooper notes, that he was a monster with presumed superhuman qualities...This part of the story never made sense. Ever. alternet.org/…/why-americas-sense-black-humanity…
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 02:16:28 +0000
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