This article is funny for its tone deafness, but it is very revealing of the social layer that obsesses over the #nytimes. Completely self-absorbed, affluent beyond belief. 155,000 Americans are dead and the Times writes pieces like this.
"In Whim, Tobagoans lived in simple wood shacks perched on cliffs overlooking crashing surf, poor in money, but the owners of stupendous, million-dollar views."
Are you kidding me? "Poor in money"?? @ninaburleigh do you live in the court of Louis XV?
This is why the Caribbean is safe for rich people:
Nixon and Trujillo
"Howls of outrage" by the local blacks? Yikes. More King Leopold than Louis XIV perhaps.
"When we returned to the island a few years later we found newly paved roads, traffic jams, and a new mood — the hum and honk of progress drowning out the hummingbirds and the cackle of the national bird, the cocrico, at dawn."
Sad. & did houses replace the quaint locals' huts?
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