I’ll be honest, I felt a bit bad for her after watching those videos. Threats to the children and fearing for your personal safety of your family is never OK and anyone who did that should not be excused. It gets us nowhere.
however, it was odd to see a lack of emotion while she was reading all that. I appreciate that if there had been tears then people would have totally switched off for the fragility aspect, but there literally seemed like NO emotion at all. Which is just as strange.
I think it was good that she posted a response and acknowledgement of sorts rather than disappearing altogether, but those who said it was very self focused are right. She may well be learning and listening but I don’t see how her Sharing articles and books is more valuable to anyone than hearing about them from Actual Black activists, writers and journaLists. I know who I’d rather take my information from.
Im also turned off by saying her tweets were perfomratice but that her insta over the last few years is her REAL self. Sorry, but that seems difficult to automatically accept. If she tweeted like that through her 20s then the likelihood is she thought the same things in her teens. How can that compare to a glossy, refined media presence of a few years?
I would like to believe her. I’m not sure I do.
apols for mistakes, cooking dinner....