Miller has changed the story AGAIN. Now he's claiming the doctor who he alleged cut him off on the highway, or tried to, depending on which version of Miller's statement you look at, did not actually wave a Palestinian flag at him. It was supposedly on his phone.
That's a third version of the flag story. Miller originally posted (then edited) a claim that the men THREW a Palestinian flag at him.
I am appalled by Miller's claim that he was threatened and nearly run off the highway by a man of Middle Eastern origin. As woman of some color who presents sometimes as white, I am all too familiar with overt and subtle threats from white supremacists and antisemitic thugs. I have always had to act with extreme care and caution in social, work, and public situations. In fact, when I was an adolescent, my family had to relocate to another state because of racist threats. We lived in a predominantly white neighborhood where routinely small crosses were burned and scattered about our lawn. My father worked in Washington D.C. as an OSHA administrator and came home on the weekend, but during his time away, my sister, mother, and I would receive threatening phone calls. My mother was stalked and followed home by a man in one her university classes from Pittsburgh. The local police did not help and thought she did something to provoke him. The incidents and dangers to our family continued and law enforcement did not respond, so my father made the decision to relocate. False accusations have catastrophic repercussions, but so do assumptive behaviors of the public, the accuser, and law enforcement.
I also wanted to add that every interaction I take must be met with thought and consideration especially in these times. How I respond to a situation is critical to saving a life, my own and the lives of others. The echo chambers of division and hatred call for kindness and acts of preservation and civility.
FOLLOW UP:
Miller has changed the story AGAIN. Now he's claiming the doctor who he alleged cut him off on the highway, or tried to, depending on which version of Miller's statement you look at, did not actually wave a Palestinian flag at him. It was supposedly on his phone.
That's a third version of the flag story. Miller originally posted (then edited) a claim that the men THREW a Palestinian flag at him.
Miller needs to be in jail.
I am appalled by Miller's claim that he was threatened and nearly run off the highway by a man of Middle Eastern origin. As woman of some color who presents sometimes as white, I am all too familiar with overt and subtle threats from white supremacists and antisemitic thugs. I have always had to act with extreme care and caution in social, work, and public situations. In fact, when I was an adolescent, my family had to relocate to another state because of racist threats. We lived in a predominantly white neighborhood where routinely small crosses were burned and scattered about our lawn. My father worked in Washington D.C. as an OSHA administrator and came home on the weekend, but during his time away, my sister, mother, and I would receive threatening phone calls. My mother was stalked and followed home by a man in one her university classes from Pittsburgh. The local police did not help and thought she did something to provoke him. The incidents and dangers to our family continued and law enforcement did not respond, so my father made the decision to relocate. False accusations have catastrophic repercussions, but so do assumptive behaviors of the public, the accuser, and law enforcement.
I also wanted to add that every interaction I take must be met with thought and consideration especially in these times. How I respond to a situation is critical to saving a life, my own and the lives of others. The echo chambers of division and hatred call for kindness and acts of preservation and civility.