I just skimmed and read her quotes here and there, but she sounds like an awful woman. That said, I'm 100% in support of her doing whatever she wants with her money. Unfortunately, she wants governments (i.e. you and me, who never owned slaves and whose ancestry also never owned slaves) to do the same thing to assuage her guilt.
I'd say "good riddance, glad she won't have a presence in media without her job any more," except we all know that this will just increase her profile and she'll never go away.
However I would not be shocked if this was some kind of clever grift she's got going on precisely as you point out of a way to increase her public profile.
I don't think she's a grifter. I think grift implies deception. I give her the benefit of the doubt in that she genuinely believes that she is a Wonderful Person that is helping the poor negroes and making the world a better place. Hell, she probably assumes that she'd face a barrage of racist abuse (she deserves abuse; I dispute that it would be motivated by racism) for being so Stunningly Brave.
If it just so happens that it instead increases her profile to show us what a Wonderful Person she is, well in her mind that's just a happy (100% deserved) bonus for fixing the world.
I just skimmed and read her quotes here and there, but she sounds like an awful woman. That said, I'm 100% in support of her doing whatever she wants with her money. Unfortunately, she wants governments (i.e. you and me, who never owned slaves and whose ancestry also never owned slaves) to do the same thing to assuage her guilt.
I'd say "good riddance, glad she won't have a presence in media without her job any more," except we all know that this will just increase her profile and she'll never go away.
I don't think she's a grifter. I think grift implies deception. I give her the benefit of the doubt in that she genuinely believes that she is a Wonderful Person that is helping the poor negroes and making the world a better place. Hell, she probably assumes that she'd face a barrage of racist abuse (she deserves abuse; I dispute that it would be motivated by racism) for being so Stunningly Brave.
If it just so happens that it instead increases her profile to show us what a Wonderful Person she is, well in her mind that's just a happy (100% deserved) bonus for fixing the world.