I’ve lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.
The only time I ever really felt uneasy was when I had to walk alone at night through a neighborhood where all the businesses had bars on the windows. Worst thing that happened was a couple of people asking me for money, and they didn’t give me any shit when I said I didn’t carry cash.
But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there’s always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao
I don’t recall her ever speaking of US or capitalism. She was possibly the richest person I’ve met in Europe and the cultural gap between rich raised rich and poor raised poor was too great. She had no friends in the country so I felt bad over leaving her be and kinda hoped she’d get better but she didn’t. She was the type not to think she’s racist because she fetishized black women.
Just speaking from personal experience. She sounds awful.
She helped me a couple of times, but I was definitely very uncomfortable around her. :/