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In reply to the discussion: "She's got the gun on me": Video shows white woman pulling pistol on black mother, daughter in MI [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Maybe she was in a better position to read the situation than anyone on DU watching the video after the fact - given that she walked away alive, her choice obviously was very rational.
I didn't post this story and video in order to give white people a premise to instruct black people on how to react to acts of violent racial aggression against us
Yet, I should have known this thread would attract such a response from some people. These things always do.
The display of privilege among people deciding that a black woman confronted with a gun in her face who took a course of action that didn't result in her being killed or harmed somehow responded "irrationally" is mind boggling.
And the fact that some people actually seem more worked up about the black woman not responding how THEY think THEY would have responded rather than over seeing yet another white person pull a gun on and threaten a black person for no reason at all and apparently get away with it is sickening.