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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)So you're in no place to second guess them.
And, as history has shown, we are just as likely to get shot no matter WHAT we do. I'm glad she stood and photographed this woman since it is very likely that 1) she knew that this crazy woman was just as likely to shoot her "calmly backing away" as she was to shoot her standing in place; 2) holding a camera on her may have may have deterred the woman from shooting her because she knew there's be evidence of it; and 3) if she HAD shot her, she and/or her family would have had documentation of what happened.
This is how black people have to function in today's America. It's easy to watch the video from the safety of our computer or cellphone and critique her actions based on what we think she should have done because we're sure WE would have done it that way. It's another to be standing in a parking lot with a crazy, racist white woman pointing a gun in your face while your children watch and you have to figure out in mere seconds of real time not only how to stay alive it but how, in the event you don't survive, to document your death so that a blind, tone-deaf society can't claim you had it coming.