The Central Park episode is of different impact if compared to the lost lives of African Americans: in the first six months of 2020, more than 100 black civilians were killed by the police in the United States. Christian Cooper, who was bird watching, had simply asked her to put her dog on a leash. While lying, she emphasized ‘African American’ several times. Earlier that same day, an incident took place in New York City’s Central Park: a white woman called the police falsely accusing an African American man of threatening her life. George Floyd was brutally killed by the police in Minneapolis on May 25 th 2020. In conversation with Carolyn Finney, author of Black Faces, White Spaces Racism and the relationship of African Americans and the American land «Our unhealthy relationship with the natural environment is linked to the unhealthy relationship we have with each other».
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