I've written on the real-estate management here. That is, I've referred to the local manager in "From Gaslighting to Ethnic Cleansing: Small Predominately White Towns in the Midwest Play As Well As the Big Cities and Southern Towns", published here at the Black Commentator.
The management! Present in the office maybe once a week. Maybe twice a week. She does post notes. She loves posting notes. We are after all seniors, many with great grandchildren. But, okay.
All the smokers say they've received personal notices for talking too loud or smoking too close to the building. White tenants received notices, but, as I said, with only six or seven black residents out of 42, it's been disproportionate among black tenants.
Which should come as any surprise to anyone living in America.
An older black woman in a wheelchair makes too much noise! And the traffic in her apartment. Traffic from nurses and family members--well, that's too much! I don't have people visiting me during COVID-19, so the manager inferred that I could know anyone! What people? You keep saying, "People who know you." What?
Kafkaesque!
The black woman who is mobile in her wheelchair receives a 5-day notice. No hearsay--I saw it! Another middle-class black woman living with her mother receives a notice for a car that she didn't own. Another, she talks too loud on her phone in her own apartment. Corner apartment!
I never received a notice, but now it seems I've been "disturbing" my neighbors. Maybe typing on this laptop too loudly? Maybe thinking too loudly? Or is it a matter of responding to the racist harassment of a next-door neighbor who uses her stereo and possibly a gaming device that reverberates, making the chair I sit on feel as if I had a speaker underneath it, blasting a punk rock, maybe, repeatedly.
Or maybe, it's a "disturbance" to this white Christian Trump-supporting population to have someone "radical", that is, "dangerous", among them. My black presence disturbs the decorum of peace here in Kenosha County.
At any rate, blacks can't complain. But whites can complain about blacks on the other side of the living room wall.
I do wonder if the management didn't use this woman's crisis as a means of ridding the building of its greatest threat? Because who wants an educated mass of tenants?
Fear drove her to miscalculate the social milieu here in small-town Wisconsin. Young docile bodies move from the workplace to the home as dependable clogs in the machine. Becoming ultimately dependable full-time consumers in their senior years. They don't, as we say, rock the boat!
It's not just that the manager defends the lies of the white neighbor, it's that in doing so, she's willing to lie with impunity for the sake of holding up the banner of white supremacy. She doesn't need to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the KKK, no. But her indifference, heartlessness, is the manifestation of her willingness to link her own personal narrative with that of white supremacy.
It's to her advantage, isn't it? She may not care on bit about this neighbor, but someone who wants to climb the corporate ladder understands the rungs lift her above the rank and file. And that means, first and foremost, rising to a position in which she takes her place in maintaining the chokehold around the necks of black Americans.
You think she's attacking you because your black?
First, I didn't say the neighbor was "attacking" me. Here the effort to materialize the racist narrative she's conceived? The question references how her racist narrative belittles the history of white supremacy, belittles the black experience in the US, and belittles my experience as a black woman living in a building she is supposed to be qualified to manage!
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