i love being a new yorker i love my city i love my state i love our immigrants i love our diversity i love our bluntness i love our warmth i love our hopes i love our dreams i love everyone who loves this city and wants to make it better and more beautiful for us all
You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.
I am such a fool when it comes to sticking up for the guys in this show and think they are being hard done by. West and Kyle have proven to be man boys who can not be trusted or expected to think beyond their own needs.
I just finished watching the last episode where Amanda and Ciara hugged and cried and WHAT a stand out Ciara was in this episode, I have gained a great deal of respect for her I have to say.
Amanda is as ridiculous as Kyle now, neither of them can think beyond themselves and see the hurt they cause others - they actually deserve each other!
Mothers who are mothering without being mothered by their own mother are living a completely different reality than mothers who are being mothered while they mother.
bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.
This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.
What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.
Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.
This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.
That man is robbing us blind.
It hasn’t even been 2 full years.
By the time his term is finished, the US will have $4, no schools, no healthcare, no water, no clean air, no food, no economy, no chance lmao.
Just police officers, cancer, and AI data centers.
Remember yall was like. “I’m not voting. I don’t like neither candidate. It’s not like it’s going to make a difference anyway!”
Now look at you. Can’t afford food, gas, or plane tickets.
I wasn’t raised with my parents cussing at me so i am extremely taken aback when I hear parents cussing at little kids. like the child is 6, are you ok???
@HNIC662@bravooomg SHE does not experience the harmful behaviors of racism directly. Her Black family members do. SHE has shown she does not understand or she would not have responded the way she did. Black people who DO experience the harmful behaviors of racism understand this and have said this.
Everyone is losing it. Kyle was an abusive partner. For years. Separately, Amanda’s a snake & betrayed her friends. Not giving Amanda a pass bc of how Kyle treated her. Not giving Kyle a pass bc he feels Amanda was putting all their relationship issues on him. Tf #SummerHouse
Those brownstones in New York are the property of Black people and our history. People’s grandparents and great grandparents came from Georgia and the Carolinas, worked as porters, waitresses, and whatever else they could get, eventually got out from under white man’s debt slavery and secured a home for successive generations of their family, ensuring that none of their line would ever be homeless. These houses are now worth millions of dollars, and they are being stolen by colonizers.
@queensofbravo However you feel about Ben, why would it ever be appropriate for Amanda to make that comment in the first conversation she’s ever had with Sabrina? Weirdo behavior.
@Andy Bri from Jersey: Amanda, do you see how your insecurities & low self worth led you to make poor “connection” choices? Would you consider therapy instead of your friend’s sloppy seconds?