I Cheered When They Came for Amy Cooper’s Dog

MJ Adia
6 min readDec 14, 2021

She deserved it. But maybe call-ins are better than canceling and call-outs

Cocker Spaniel in coat, scissors cutting leash
Photo by RODNAE Productions from Pexels, Adapted by Author on Canva

When Amy Cooper’s Cocker Spaniel was returned to her, I was indignant. She didn’t deserve to have him back! I soon realized her dog wasn’t taken because Cooper made a false claim of being threatened by a black birdwatcher, who simply requested that she leash her dog in a protected park area. Her collar yanking…

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MJ Adia

Black-Filipina. Lived in Peru for 5 years. LICSW, dancer, meditator. Writes about multiculturalism, cinema, race, social issues.