Talk to him. Try a translation app. Try to figure out what language he is speaking and call your neighbors if there’s anyone who speaks the language. Call your neighbors to see if someone is home so you can go inside and drink tea with the three of you.
It’s mostly not a personal failing of the woman. American culture constantly reinforces racist paranoia and treating everything you don’t like as an externality, so it’s natural that she would internalize that. It’s hard to be conscious of the fact you’re putting someone’s life at risk when you’re doing what your culture says you’re supposed to do.
But it is that cultural mindset that gets people to want to hand these tasks over to heavily armed murder-racists, and to vote for parties that empower the heavily armed murder-racists. Waking up to the police’s systemic cruelty and wanting to abolish them will necessarily involve realizing that calling the cops in a situation that involves a brown person is violence against them.
Talk to him. Try a translation app. Try to figure out what language he is speaking and call your neighbors if there’s anyone who speaks the language. Call your neighbors to see if someone is home so you can go inside and drink tea with the three of you.
It’s mostly not a personal failing of the woman. American culture constantly reinforces racist paranoia and treating everything you don’t like as an externality, so it’s natural that she would internalize that. It’s hard to be conscious of the fact you’re putting someone’s life at risk when you’re doing what your culture says you’re supposed to do.
But it is that cultural mindset that gets people to want to hand these tasks over to heavily armed murder-racists, and to vote for parties that empower the heavily armed murder-racists. Waking up to the police’s systemic cruelty and wanting to abolish them will necessarily involve realizing that calling the cops in a situation that involves a brown person is violence against them.