Did anyone else catch it this morning, or am I making it up, or did Sam snap on Bunney?
She did indeed (
timestamp):
In her stream
Dammitamber and the Lies She Told (02/23/2024), Sam showed her inbox (
timestamp, 00:42:51). Don't know if anyone can enhance it, nor am I suggesting there's anything of interest there, so just tossing this on the pile ha ha:
Sam's current strategy, as discussed, is to divide Belinda from her audience with accusations of racism. I suspect Sam needs to take a look at her own choices.
In a Jan 2019 Facebook post (thanks
@Scrub Mommy), Sam overshares her son's history of mental illness, substance abuse, and contact with the South Bend criminal justice system (
link |
Facebook |
archive), beginning in his early teens. The situation becomes so dire that police remove him from Sam and Harold's home -- the same month, it would seem, Sam and Harold are arrested for felony check fraud -- and he's placed in a group facility. I've been wondering who called the police -- a concerned neighbor? I believe Arabia has indicated Sam wasn't above calling the police on her kids.
The Facebook post is worth reading because of how Sam frames the son's experiences, the failings of the system, etc. Sam claims he is trying to turn his life around (and I will say he appears to be doing
much better now and has even shared joking back-and-forth about his past with Sam's father) and be a good father to his daughter Celeste. So why the suggestion of racism?
@Tansy Thujone shared some old Sam tweets (
link), including one in which Sam states she'll take "a road trip with celestes dad," the implication being that the son is prepared to attack someone with/on behalf of his white mama. Interesting. So a white woman, who's seen firsthand the effects of mental illness, persistent poverty, a profoundly unstable upbringing, and institutional failings on the development of a young black man is prepared to use him as a cudgel to threaten other people? A son with a history of domestic assault, violation of protection orders, and pointing (unlicensed) firearms at people? Regardless of the son's past (maybe because of it?), I would tentatively suggest that some people might find that racially exploitative. Which would simply be a specific form of racism by a "white ally."
Unless, of course, I misunderstood the tweet, which is also possible.
