This NPR article just showed up on my feed.
Peep the headline. This story is about a white single mother and her daughter and people being generous enough to help them.
Here's an important piece from the article:
Her Jeep Grand Cherokee, which already had over 250,000 miles on it, had been in the shop multiple times over the past few months. The repairs were expensive, and Kronk braced herself for another financial setback.
She was stranded on an Alaskan highway. A stranger saved the day
Eventually, the car rumbled to a start and she drove it straight to the dealership to get it repaired, hoping it wouldn't break down on the way. When she arrived, the mechanics got to work. They took the keys, pulled out her daughter Katie's car seat, and moved it into a courtesy shuttle.
"They had done it so many times that it was like we had our own personal pit crew," Kronk recalled.
The courtesy shuttle took them to the daycare. From there, Kronk walked to work. Later that afternoon, she got a call – the car was ready. She headed back to the daycare to pick up Katie; they shuttled back to the dealership. All the while, Kronk worried about the astronomical bill she was about to pay. But when she took out her wallet, the cashier smiled.
"She told me there was no charge," Kronk said. "They had miraculously found the part I needed at no cost."
An unexpected source of solace during an in-flight emergency
Kronk thought there must be some mistake. "I said, 'Could you check that? Like, what's the labor cost going to be?" But the cashier assured her that the mechanics had donated their labor – there was really no charge. Still confused, Kronk asked to verify this with the service manager.
"He came over to me and walked me to my car and just told me not to worry about it," she said. He assured her that everything was covered. Kronk was speechless.
So where is the father? Where is the dad at? I thought everyone including single mothers needed bootstraps no matter what, not lifelines, donations, help, or welfare. Oh wait, they only tell Black single mothers and Black people that nonsense.
If the single mother was Black, would the car repair people be this charitable to her and would this NPR article be written in such a heartwarming way? Honest question.
Whites (including white homeless - even the fake con artist ones) on average get a lot more communal charity and welfare.
Meanwhile Black people (particularly those who are poor) would be considered "lucky" to get Toys for Tots for their children, have access to better opportunities and resources, have their welfare and electricity not getting cut off, be able to not face eviction, and be given info about and approved for government assistance or non-profit events and donations during a good year.
Yet, Black people are met with pure hostility from everyone whenever any of us receive or seek to receive any type of handout whether it is from the government, a non-profit organization, or a private company or citizen. I even came across racist comments hoping for Black people to be sterilized on articles about church and non-profit organizations donating things to poor Black people with newborn children.
Black single mothers, like the rest of Black society, are mostly on their own and left to fend for themselves in an anti-Black racist world. This is partly why the Black community needs reparations and deserve access to resources and power so we can help each other more because nobody else will.
Peep the headline. This story is about a white single mother and her daughter and people being generous enough to help them.
Here's an important piece from the article:
Her Jeep Grand Cherokee, which already had over 250,000 miles on it, had been in the shop multiple times over the past few months. The repairs were expensive, and Kronk braced herself for another financial setback.
She was stranded on an Alaskan highway. A stranger saved the day
Eventually, the car rumbled to a start and she drove it straight to the dealership to get it repaired, hoping it wouldn't break down on the way. When she arrived, the mechanics got to work. They took the keys, pulled out her daughter Katie's car seat, and moved it into a courtesy shuttle.
"They had done it so many times that it was like we had our own personal pit crew," Kronk recalled.
The courtesy shuttle took them to the daycare. From there, Kronk walked to work. Later that afternoon, she got a call – the car was ready. She headed back to the daycare to pick up Katie; they shuttled back to the dealership. All the while, Kronk worried about the astronomical bill she was about to pay. But when she took out her wallet, the cashier smiled.
"She told me there was no charge," Kronk said. "They had miraculously found the part I needed at no cost."
An unexpected source of solace during an in-flight emergency
Kronk thought there must be some mistake. "I said, 'Could you check that? Like, what's the labor cost going to be?" But the cashier assured her that the mechanics had donated their labor – there was really no charge. Still confused, Kronk asked to verify this with the service manager.
"He came over to me and walked me to my car and just told me not to worry about it," she said. He assured her that everything was covered. Kronk was speechless.
So where is the father? Where is the dad at? I thought everyone including single mothers needed bootstraps no matter what, not lifelines, donations, help, or welfare. Oh wait, they only tell Black single mothers and Black people that nonsense.
If the single mother was Black, would the car repair people be this charitable to her and would this NPR article be written in such a heartwarming way? Honest question.
Whites (including white homeless - even the fake con artist ones) on average get a lot more communal charity and welfare.
Meanwhile Black people (particularly those who are poor) would be considered "lucky" to get Toys for Tots for their children, have access to better opportunities and resources, have their welfare and electricity not getting cut off, be able to not face eviction, and be given info about and approved for government assistance or non-profit events and donations during a good year.
Yet, Black people are met with pure hostility from everyone whenever any of us receive or seek to receive any type of handout whether it is from the government, a non-profit organization, or a private company or citizen. I even came across racist comments hoping for Black people to be sterilized on articles about church and non-profit organizations donating things to poor Black people with newborn children.
Black single mothers, like the rest of Black society, are mostly on their own and left to fend for themselves in an anti-Black racist world. This is partly why the Black community needs reparations and deserve access to resources and power so we can help each other more because nobody else will.
