It’s Not Enough to Say You’re Not Racist. You Have to Do the Work.

Russell Dinkins
4 min readMay 26, 2020

Recently Amy Cooper, dubbed “Central Park Karen” by the ever-innovative collective that is Twitter dot com, called the police on Christian Cooper (no relation) after he asked her to place her dog on a leash. Dogs are supposed to be on leashes in that part of the park; she was violating the rules. But no matter because she, in her likely estimation, was the aggrieved party and…

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Russell Dinkins

Exploring race, class, environment, society, and their intersections. Princeton alumnus. Avid runner. Critical Thinker