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PP again. I honestly haven't fully processed how I feel either. What she did was pretty dickish and petty imo, but I am convinced her intent wasn't to harm the woman in the photo. I think she was possibly annoyed and in the heat of the moment expressed to what she thought would be a supportive audience. I don't know what her frame of mind was, if it came from having a bad morning without sleep or because she was feeling uppity, but I would like to think that based on my knowledge of her, her intent wasn't to harm the wmata employee. She's not that type of person.

Whether her book is published or not is the last of her concerns now, imo. I honestly feel like her whole world is ruined. Her kids won't be able to go to school without being noticed and recognized and possibly judged, her paycheck is in jeopardy. Yes, she put the WMATA employee's paycheck in jeopardy too, but unintentionally. I really think she did the wrong thing with that tweet, but not wrong enough to wish her whole life's destruction like some gleeful posters about karma shared. The mob went after NT with everything it has, trying to ruin her completely. If you google her, all the crap comes up. This is not some family with a 1.5 million dollar townhouse in the heart of DC, and the mom just decided to write a book. They went after her hard, and I worry about how this will impact her whole life. I find posters who only cared about the WMATA employee's check, and only stood by her because of race to be hypocritical. I'm not white btw. I'm tired of people ganging up on the other. If the issue with the tweet was that it adds to the body of media policing women of color, then we shouldn't join the ranks of some gang, doing the same exact thing to someone else, under the guise of justice. [/quote]

Honestly, this will blow over soon enough. It's a painful lesson about the risk of being very visible as a public figure, especially on a casual format like Twitter -- it's all too easy to press that button and post without thinking.

But her best bet is to do other things that are noteworthy in a different way, once this blows over.

Look, people are allowed to judge you. They shouldn't do it in a way that piles on, but often they do, and they are allowed to, just like she is allowed to post commentary and pictures about Metro employees. That does come with a healthy dose of sow certain seeds, and you'll reap what harvests. Every action has its own risks, and the same for people that she feels ganged up on her.

But it already happened. It isn't going to un-happen. She needs to make one quiet and thoughtful statement, if that, and let it go -- and then do other noteworthy things which are consistent with where she wants to go. And if she wants to keep posting in the same way, well, than that's a choice, too.[/quote]

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