Woman says "white people have always prioritized pets over black people"
She said: Have you ever seen a white woman weep for her rescue dog, but not blink at a black child shot in the back? That's not quirk.
That's colonial memory at work, that is whiteness distributing empathy based on control. They loved the dog because it obeyed…because it didn't talk back…. Because it couldn't remind them of horror behind the house.
But black people? Black people were never allowed to be innocent, they were property, then threat. And the dog got more compassion than the enslaved.
Black people got numbers, chains, and unmarked soil. White feelings will organize a march for a dolphin but stay silent during genocide.
When Amy Cooper clutched her dog and called the cops on a black man, that wasn't mistake, that was ritual. The pet in hand, the cop on line.
That's structure. It's not about loving animals, it's about refusing to love what they can't control. The pet becomes sacred, the black body becomes target.
That's not empathy, that's empire. We remember what they erased, and we're not asking for tears, we're here to haunt."
