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She continued, claiming she found “HOPE” after watching a young, African American bus boy hustling at his restaurant job while Bell was out to eat with her husband and sons. She complimented the teen through his manager, who later passed the praise on to him."
“It will be some time before I forget the smile that beamed across that young worker’s face — or the look in his eyes as we caught each other’s gaze,” Bell wrote. “I wonder how long it had been since someone told him he was special.”
wft?
totally nothing massively offensive about this, a white woman presuming that a Black male has no allies or support from family, friends, loved ones, is a lost soul who will have their life affirmed by the benevolence she chooses to bestow?
for real, fuck her
and she makes NOTE of this ish, publicly. If she really cared she wouldn't publicly pat herself on the back, willfully and unfairly disparaging the dude's community for what purpose exactly?
oh yeah, nothing but making peeps feel better about the stat quo
and her feeling ok from benefiting from it
would have canned her azz too. not for melanin content or lack thereof, but for being an idiot who said something incredibly ignorant that aside from being regressive cuts deep, to a lot of Black parents, particularly in NA. Native parents as well. If only they could love and care for their kids
fuck her