Greg S’s Reviews > Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream > Status Update

More information, please. - “Instead I see him using the family court system as a means of continued abuse, manipulation, and control.”

“It is the victim’s obligation to self to heal the wounds that left them vulnerable to abuse and it is the abuser’s obligation to the victim to offer both apology and restitution.”

Wat - “I could feel those old Black souls pulsating through my blood and veins to the steady rhythm…”

“They must maintain belief in their righteousness and superiority, despite all of their evildoing and shortcomings, and will stop at nothing to protect their belief.”

“Abusers seldom change,” my therapist had warned when I shared such memories”

“Both my relationship with my therapist and what I learned from Gabriel’s ex helped me come to terms with what I was experiencing: narcissistic abuse.”

I hear you, author. I hear you.

From Wikipedia, “As of the 2011 Trinidad and Tobago Census, the population was 35.43% East Indian, 34.22% African, 7.66% mixed African and East Indian, and 15.16% other mixed. Venezuela has also had a great impact on Trinidad's culture, such as introducing the music style parang to the island. Many groups overlap.”

How does a person remember these details? - “The other, a petite woman with a tiny, perfectly round bump and wearing black-and-purple Jordans, skinny jeans, and a hoodie, sat nearby chatting loudly on her phone.”

She finally says something about the Haitian Revolution and…oh, wow she’s just going to skip all the interesting parts. The destruction of land and infrastructure during the War with France. The war between the North and the South in 1811. Nothing about Jean-Pierre Boyer.