When I need distraction from the madness of our times, I turn to a particular bit by a comedian named Sarah Cooper.
Like the recent riff that Cooper satirizes about “the Black people.” It takes place at one of those impromptu press conferences that Trump frequently holds as he’s about to board a helicopter whose engines are running, so it’s like he’s yelling to be heard above a vacuum cleaner. This gives him the opportunity to say what he wants while having an excuse not to take questions from reporters.
Black people are justifiably enraged that Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis cop, thought he could get away with killing George Floyd, a Black man, while being filmed. As if white people really don’t care what you do to Black people, even if they see it with their own eyes.
So predictable. It’s the knee-jerk reaction MAGA has when they see Black people protesting racism.
And sure enough, the caller said something like: Hey, Troy, stop complaining about bike citations and start doing something about Black-on-Black crime.
They certainly didn’t want it for Colin Kaepernick. I can’t recall MAGA protesting when the NFL banished Kaepernick for protesting police brutality by taking a knee during the national anthem.
