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(73,631 posts) Thu Jun 14, 2018, 07:47 AM Jun 2018

White Fragility Digest #18: 14 June 2018 [View all]

Black woman brutally assaulted by white couple at little league event fights more injustice when son is banned from team

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By Kia Morgan-Smith

A mother of two is still haunted a year after a white couple brutally beat and attacked her in Los Angeles. The woman said she suffered from a concussion from the vicious assault now has memory loss.

Katrina Ross can’t find a reason why a white woman and man would beat her down without cause and says she did nothing to antagonize them after she attended a charity event for the Del Rey American Little League, reports the LA Times.

Instead she said the two confronted her as she tried to leave the event on April 29, around midnight.

Ross said the husband and wife duo started beating, choking and kicking her repeatedly. She said she was brutalized so badly that she started bleeding from her head and face. And during the attack they screamed racial slurs. She said she does not know the couple and they attack was“unprovoked.”

“How much hate do you have in your heart?” she asked wiping away tears, during a press conference in downtown Los Angeles.

Attorneys Britany Engelman and Rodney Diggs, who are representing Ross, sad the league failed to provide security at the event. They are pressing the LAPD to present a case to the Los Angeles County district attorney. They also say they have witnesses who can corroborate Ross’ claims and they want an immediate arrest of the offenders. She says the woman is the parent of a child who plays in the league with her son.

According to Ross’ attorney, a police report of the incident says that she was “punched and kicked” and suffered “visible injuries” but made no mention of the attack being a hate crime.

https://thegrio.com/2018/06/01/black-woman-attacked-by-white-couple-at-little-league-event-fights-for-justice/

"White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress, leading to what I refer to as White Fragility. White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium."

Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D

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