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“These people are never satisfied,” a white man with graying hair grumbled.
Not “these people” 🤨
“but this tour is about historically important people.” “This is a historically Black neighborhood, but none of the important people you’ve mentioned thus far have been. What does that mean?”
Kim DeVries: We should all be happy that this drug crisis is being responded to with kindness and compassion. It will be great for the neighborhood, too. Look at how much nicer downtown Brooklyn has become since the Ratner deal. Drea Wilson: Candace Tompkins:
Kim…girl bye
Kim has a framed portrait of Michelle Obama in our living room, so she’s not . . . you know.
Tf? That don’t mean a damn thing at all.
“You’re making me feel unsafe, and if you don’t stop, I’ll—I’ll call the police.” There’s a malicious glee on her face as she says it, like when she knows her renovating work has woken me up. An expression that says, I’m fucking with you just because I can.
“I was gonna pay Kavaughn, but I’m not paying you,” I say. “If you really want to help, you can think of this work as reparations.”
Well damn 😂😂😂
“cultured entertaining soundtrack” since she usually listens to Taylor Swift when she’s alone; she must have guests.
“When you’re depressed and jobless, it’s easy to fall in with the wrong kind of people—”
“No! No! No!” he shouts directly into my face, so close that I can tell he hasn’t brushed his teeth for days just before his spittle lands on the corner of my lip.
🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
A camera hangs from a strap around his neck, bouncing over a black T-shirt emblazoned with three bold words in white: BLACK LIVES MATTER.
I snatch it, then gesture at his shirt with my other hand. “Howdy Doody! Howdy Doody!”
Lmao
